How To Install topal on Debian 10

Learn how to install topal on Debian 10 with this tutorial. topal is Links Pine and GnuPG together

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install topal on Debian 10.

What is topal

topal is:

Topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages. Multiple PGP blocks included in the text of a message are processed. Decryption and verification output can be cached to reduce the number of times the passphrase is entered. RFC2015/3156 multipart messages can be sent and received with help from some scripts, procmail, and a patch to Pine/Alpine. It includes basic support for verifying S/MIME multipart/signed messages. There is a remote sending mode for reading email on a distant computer via SSH with secret keys on the local computer. There is a high level of configurability.

There are three methods to install topal on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install topal Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install topal

Install topal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install topal

Install topal 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 topal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install topal

How To Uninstall topal on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove topal

Uninstall topal And Its Dependencies

To uninstall topal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove topal

Remove topal Configurations and Data

To remove topal configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge topal

Remove topal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge topal

Dependencies

topal have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install topal package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.