How To Install yubikey-personalization on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.