How To Install signing-party on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install signing-party on Kali Linux.
What is signing-party
signing-party is:
signing-party is a collection for all kinds of PGP/GnuPG related things, including tools for signing keys, keyring analysis, and party preparation.
- caff: CA - Fire and Forget signs and mails a key
- pgp-clean: removes all non-self signatures from key
- pgp-fixkey: removes broken packets from keys
- gpg-mailkeys: simply mail out a signed key to its owner
- gpg-key2ps: generate PostScript file with fingerprint paper slips
- gpgdir: recursive directory encryption tool
- gpglist: show who signed which of your UIDs
- gpgsigs: annotates list of GnuPG keys with already done signatures
- gpgparticipants: create list of party participants for the organiser
- gpgwrap: a passphrase wrapper
- keyanalyze: minimum signing distance (MSD) analysis on keyrings
- keylookup: ncurses wrapper around gpg –search
- sig2dot: converts a list of GnuPG signatures to a .dot file
- springgraph: creates a graph from a .dot file
- keyart: creates a random ASCII art of a PGP key file
- gpg-key2latex: generate LaTeX file with fingerprint paper slips
There are three methods to install signing-party on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install signing-party Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install signing-party using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install signing-partyInstall signing-party Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install signing-party using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install signing-partyInstall signing-party Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install signing-party using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install signing-partyHow To Uninstall signing-party on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the signing-party package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove signing-partyUninstall signing-party And Its Dependencies
To uninstall signing-party and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove signing-partyRemove signing-party Configurations and Data
To remove signing-party configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge signing-partyRemove signing-party configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove signing-party configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge signing-partyDependencies
signing-party have the following dependencies:
- gnupg
- libclass-methodmaker-perl
- libgnupg-interface-perl
- libmailtools-perl
- libmime-tools-perl
- libnet-idn-encode-perl
- libterm-readkey-perl
- libtext-template-perl
- qprint
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install signing-party package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
