How To Install upass on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install upass on Kali Linux.

What is upass

upass is:

upass is a curses-based (more specifically urwid) interface for pass, the standard Unix password manager. It provides a simple, but powerful view of the password store and can copy passwords or extended information to the clipboard interactively.

pass is the standard unix password manager, to be found in the pass package.

There is another implementation of a curses interface, gopass.pw, but it is a complete reimplementation. In contrast, upass simply wraps the standard pass implementation.

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

Install upass Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install upass

Install upass Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install upass

Install upass Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install upass

How To Uninstall upass on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove upass

Uninstall upass And Its Dependencies

To uninstall upass and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove upass

Remove upass Configurations and Data

To remove upass configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge upass

Remove upass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge upass

Dependencies

upass have the following dependencies:

• pass
• python3-pyperclip
• python3-urwid
• python3

References

• upass website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install upass package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.