How To Install keyringer on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install keyringer on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is keyringer
keyringer is:
Keyringer lets you manage and share secrets using GnuPG and Git in a distributed fashion. It has custom commands to encrypt, decrypt and recrypt secrets as well as create key pairs and supports encryption to multiple recipients and groups of different recipients to ensure the same repository can be shared with a workgroup but allowing to keep some secrets available just to subsets of that group.
OpenSSL is needed to generate X.509 certificates and keys and xdg-utils are needed to open and edit encrypted secrets according to their file types.
There are three methods to install keyringer on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install keyringer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install keyringer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install keyringer
Install keyringer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install keyringer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install keyringer
Install keyringer 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 keyringer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install keyringer
How To Uninstall keyringer on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the keyringer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove keyringer
Uninstall keyringer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall keyringer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove keyringer
Remove keyringer Configurations and Data
To remove keyringer configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge keyringer
Remove keyringer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove keyringer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge keyringer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install keyringer package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
