How To Install clevis on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is clevis
clevis is:
Clevis is a plugable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes.
It supports tang and shamir secret sharing (SSS).
Package: clevis Architecture: amd64 Version: 12-1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Christoph Biedl [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 86 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libjansson4 (>= 2.7), libjose0 (>= 10), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), cracklib-runtime, curl, jose, libpwquality-tools, luksmeta Recommends: cryptsetup-bin Filename: pool/universe/c/clevis/clevis_12-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 21980 MD5sum: 215c11f7ba1a95c8ca8600c2ae2db8a7 SHA1: 058f5b67fd3ace30bc8f0c5e64588245c3bb128d SHA256: 46028de1f941a3b4f6fcbb59b4082348442abffb92a970ac2edc9569cb6074f5 Homepage: https://github.com/latchset/clevis Description-en: automated encryption framework Clevis is a plugable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes.
It supports tang and shamir secret sharing (SSS).
There are three methods to install clevis
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 clevis Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clevis
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clevis
Install clevis Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clevis
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clevis
Install clevis 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 clevis
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clevis
How To Uninstall clevis on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the clevis
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clevis
Uninstall clevis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clevis
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clevis
Remove clevis Configurations and Data
To remove clevis
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clevis
Remove clevis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clevis
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clevis
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.