How To Install wotsap on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wotsap on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wotsap
wotsap is:
Wotsap is a tool that analyzes a OpenPGP Web of Trust description and reports to the user stastistics about the single keys and the whole network, or searches for paths from one key to another.
OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard, used by encryption software such as the GNU Privacy Guard (gpg). To encrypt to someone or verify someone’s signature, you need that persons OpenPGP key. Say you want to verify a digital signature made by Bob. To get Bob’s key is easy with some help from keyservers, being sure you got the right key is the tricky part. This is accomplished either by meeting Bob in person and exchanging signatures, or by trusting someone else, who you have met in person, who claims to have met Bob. Or by trusting someone who has met someone who has met Bob. This gives rise to a completely decentralized network of trusts between people.
Wotsap lets you explore the Web of Trust. It works on a compressed copy of the Web of Trust in the .wot file format, generated daily and distributed on the site of wotsap main writer.
There are three methods to install wotsap 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 wotsap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wotsap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wotsap
Install wotsap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wotsap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wotsap
Install wotsap 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 wotsap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wotsap
How To Uninstall wotsap on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wotsap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wotsap
Uninstall wotsap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wotsap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wotsap
Remove wotsap Configurations and Data
To remove wotsap configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wotsap
Remove wotsap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wotsap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wotsap
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wotsap package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
