How To Install ekeyd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ekeyd
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ekeyd
ekeyd is:
This is a driver for the Simtec Electronics Entropy Key. It is only needed if you have such a device (or devices). It provides a daemon and tools to drive and control it, as well as options for injecting entropy directly into the kernel’s pool, or serving it via the EGD protocol.
There are three methods to install ekeyd
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 ekeyd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ekeyd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ekeyd
Install ekeyd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ekeyd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ekeyd
Install ekeyd 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 ekeyd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ekeyd
How To Uninstall ekeyd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ekeyd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ekeyd
Uninstall ekeyd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ekeyd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ekeyd
Remove ekeyd Configurations and Data
To remove ekeyd
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ekeyd
Remove ekeyd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ekeyd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ekeyd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ekeyd
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.