How To Install pantalaimon on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install pantalaimon on Ubuntu 22.04. pantalaimon is E2EE aware proxy daemon for matrix clients - daemon

Introduction

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

What is pantalaimon

pantalaimon is:

Pantalaimon is an end-to-end encryption aware Matrix reverse proxy daemon. Pantalaimon acts as a good man in the middle that handles the encryption for you.

Messages are transparently encrypted and decrypted for clients inside of pantalaimon.

This package contains the pantalaimon daemon and administration tool panctl.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pantalaimon

Install pantalaimon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pantalaimon

Install pantalaimon 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 pantalaimon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pantalaimon

How To Uninstall pantalaimon on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove pantalaimon

Uninstall pantalaimon And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pantalaimon

Remove pantalaimon Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pantalaimon

Remove pantalaimon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pantalaimon

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Summary

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