How To Install yubikey-personalization on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization on Debian 12.
What is yubikey-personalization
yubikey-personalization is:
YubiKeys are USB tokens that act like keyboards and generate one-time or static passwords.
This is a tool to customize the tokens with your own cryptographic key, user id and so on.
There are three methods to install yubikey-personalization on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install yubikey-personalization Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yubikey-personalization using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yubikey-personalization
Install yubikey-personalization Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yubikey-personalization using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yubikey-personalization
Install yubikey-personalization 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 yubikey-personalization using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yubikey-personalization
How To Uninstall yubikey-personalization on Debian 12
To uninstall only the yubikey-personalization package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yubikey-personalization
Uninstall yubikey-personalization And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yubikey-personalization and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yubikey-personalization
Remove yubikey-personalization Configurations and Data
To remove yubikey-personalization configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yubikey-personalization
Remove yubikey-personalization configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yubikey-personalization configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yubikey-personalization
Dependencies
yubikey-personalization have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
