How To Install nitrocli on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nitrocli
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nitrocli
nitrocli is:
nitrocli provides access to the password safe, the encrypted storage and the one-time password generator on Nitrokey Pro and Nitrokey Storage devices. It can also be used to manage the device configuration and PINs.
There are three methods to install nitrocli
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 nitrocli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nitrocli
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nitrocli
Install nitrocli Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nitrocli
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nitrocli
Install nitrocli 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 nitrocli
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nitrocli
How To Uninstall nitrocli on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nitrocli
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nitrocli
Uninstall nitrocli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nitrocli
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nitrocli
Remove nitrocli Configurations and Data
To remove nitrocli
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nitrocli
Remove nitrocli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nitrocli
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nitrocli
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nitrocli
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.