How To Install opencryptoki on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install opencryptoki on Ubuntu 22.04. opencryptoki is PKCS#11 implementation (daemon)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opencryptoki on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is opencryptoki

opencryptoki is:

openCryptoki is a PKCS#11 Cryptographic Token Interface Standard implementation. It includes drivers and libraries to enable IBM cryptographic hardware such as Trusted Computing Platform (TPM) cryptographic devices as well as a software token for testing.

This package contains the daemon.

There are three methods to install opencryptoki 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 opencryptoki Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install opencryptoki using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install opencryptoki

Install opencryptoki Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install opencryptoki using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install opencryptoki

Install opencryptoki 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 opencryptoki using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install opencryptoki

How To Uninstall opencryptoki on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the opencryptoki package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove opencryptoki

Uninstall opencryptoki And Its Dependencies

To uninstall opencryptoki and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove opencryptoki

Remove opencryptoki Configurations and Data

To remove opencryptoki configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge opencryptoki

Remove opencryptoki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove opencryptoki configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opencryptoki

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install opencryptoki package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.