How To Install ssss on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssss on Debian 12.
What is ssss
ssss is:
Implementation of Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme. The program suite does both: the generation of shares for a known secret, and the reconstruction of a secret using user-provided shares.
Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme allows a secret to be split in to shares. These shares can then be distributed to different people. When the time comes to retrieve the secret then a preset number of the shares need to be combined. The number of shares created, and the number needed to retrieve the secret are set at splitting time. The number of shares required to re-create the secret can be chosen to be less that the number of shares created, so any large enough subset of the shares can retrieve the secret.
This scheme allows a secret to be shared, either to reduce the chances that the secret is lost, or to increase the number of parties that must cooperate to reveal the secret.
There are three methods to install ssss 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 ssss Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ssss using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ssss
Install ssss Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ssss using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ssss
Install ssss 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 ssss using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ssss
How To Uninstall ssss on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ssss package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ssss
Uninstall ssss And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ssss and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ssss
Remove ssss Configurations and Data
To remove ssss configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ssss
Remove ssss configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ssss configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ssss
Dependencies
ssss have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssss package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
