How To Install secrecy on Debian 12

Learn how to install secrecy on Debian 12 with this tutorial. secrecy is tool to handle libsecrecy keys and encrypted files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install secrecy on Debian 12.

What is secrecy

secrecy is:

libsecrecy is a header only C++ library implementing an encrypted file format based on GCM (Galois Counter Mode) and AES128 or AES256.

The libsecrecy distribution comes with a command line tool called secrecy. This tool has subcommands to manage libsecrecy encryption keys, encrypt, and decrypt files encrypted with the libsecrecy.

There are three methods to install secrecy on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install secrecy Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install secrecy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install secrecy

Install secrecy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install secrecy using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install secrecy

Install secrecy Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install secrecy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install secrecy

How To Uninstall secrecy on Debian 12

To uninstall only the secrecy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove secrecy

Uninstall secrecy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall secrecy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove secrecy

Remove secrecy Configurations and Data

To remove secrecy configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge secrecy

Remove secrecy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove secrecy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge secrecy

Dependencies

secrecy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install secrecy package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.