How To Install passwordsafe on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install passwordsafe on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is passwordsafe
passwordsafe is:
Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list. With Password Safe all you have to do is create and remember a single “Master Password” of your choice in order to unlock and access your entire user name/password list.
This is the GNU/Linux version of the popular PasswordSafe password manager, originally designed by the renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier and open sourced in 2002.
Compatible with 1.x, 2.x and 3.x versions of the database format.
Note: This is a BETA release for Linux, therefore some functionality may not yet be implemented.
There are three methods to install passwordsafe 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 passwordsafe Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install passwordsafe using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install passwordsafe
Install passwordsafe Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install passwordsafe using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install passwordsafe
Install passwordsafe 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 passwordsafe using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install passwordsafe
How To Uninstall passwordsafe on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the passwordsafe package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove passwordsafe
Uninstall passwordsafe And Its Dependencies
To uninstall passwordsafe and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove passwordsafe
Remove passwordsafe Configurations and Data
To remove passwordsafe configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge passwordsafe
Remove passwordsafe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove passwordsafe configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge passwordsafe
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install passwordsafe package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
