How To Install zulucrypt-cli on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zulucrypt-cli on Debian 10.
What is zulucrypt-cli
zulucrypt-cli is:
zulucrypt is a suite of applications for creating and managing volumes encrypted with luks, plain, truecrypt and veracrypt.
zulucrypt-cli is a command line interface frontend to cryptsetup and tcplay and it is a tool that make it easy to manage LUKS, PLAIN and TRUECRYPT encrypted volumes. With one command you can encrypt a volume. Without zulucrypt-cli would be multiple commands needed to achieve the same result.
There are three methods to install zulucrypt-cli on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install zulucrypt-cli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install zulucrypt-cli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zulucrypt-cli
Install zulucrypt-cli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zulucrypt-cli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zulucrypt-cli
Install zulucrypt-cli 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 zulucrypt-cli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zulucrypt-cli
How To Uninstall zulucrypt-cli on Debian 10
To uninstall only the zulucrypt-cli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zulucrypt-cli
Uninstall zulucrypt-cli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zulucrypt-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zulucrypt-cli
Remove zulucrypt-cli Configurations and Data
To remove zulucrypt-cli configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zulucrypt-cli
Remove zulucrypt-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zulucrypt-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zulucrypt-cli
Dependencies
zulucrypt-cli have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zulucrypt-cli package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.