How To Install yubikey-personalization-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization-gui on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is yubikey-personalization-gui
yubikey-personalization-gui is:
YubiKeys are USB tokens that act like keyboards and generate one-time passwords, static passwords or work in challenge-response mode.
This is a graphical tool to customize the token with your own cryptographic key and options.
There are three methods to install yubikey-personalization-gui 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 yubikey-personalization-gui 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-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yubikey-personalization-gui
Install yubikey-personalization-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yubikey-personalization-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yubikey-personalization-gui
Install yubikey-personalization-gui 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 yubikey-personalization-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yubikey-personalization-gui
How To Uninstall yubikey-personalization-gui on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the yubikey-personalization-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yubikey-personalization-gui
Uninstall yubikey-personalization-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yubikey-personalization-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yubikey-personalization-gui
Remove yubikey-personalization-gui Configurations and Data
To remove yubikey-personalization-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yubikey-personalization-gui
Remove yubikey-personalization-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yubikey-personalization-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yubikey-personalization-gui
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization-gui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
