How To Install topal on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install topal on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove topal
Remove topal Configurations and Data
To remove topal configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install topal package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
