How To Install steghide-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install steghide-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. steghide-doc is steganography hiding tool - documentation files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install steghide-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is steghide-doc

steghide-doc is:

Steghide is steganography program which hides bits of a data file in some of the least significant bits of another file in such a way that the existence of the data file is not visible and cannot be proven.

Steghide is designed to be portable and configurable and features hiding data in bmp, jpeg, wav and au files, blowfish encryption, MD5 hashing of passphrases to blowfish keys, and pseudo-random distribution of hidden bits in the container data.

These packages contains the common documentation files.

There are three methods to install steghide-doc 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 steghide-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install steghide-doc

Install steghide-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install steghide-doc

Install steghide-doc 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 steghide-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install steghide-doc

How To Uninstall steghide-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the steghide-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove steghide-doc

Uninstall steghide-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall steghide-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove steghide-doc

Remove steghide-doc Configurations and Data

To remove steghide-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge steghide-doc

Remove steghide-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge steghide-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install steghide-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.