How To Install signing-party on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install signing-party
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 update
After updating apt database, We can install signing-party
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install signing-party
Install signing-party Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install signing-party
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install signing-party
Install signing-party 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install signing-party
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install signing-party
How To Uninstall signing-party on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the signing-party
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove signing-party
Uninstall signing-party And Its Dependencies
To uninstall signing-party
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove signing-party
Remove signing-party Configurations and Data
To remove signing-party
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge signing-party
Remove 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-party
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install signing-party
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.