How To Install kwalletcli on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kwalletcli on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is kwalletcli
kwalletcli is:
kwalletcli implements a command line interface tool to get and set password entries in the default KDE Wallet. Also included are a shell wrapper around pinentry, a pinentry-kwallet application checking the KDE Wallet for the passphrase requested before asking the user for use with the GnuPG Agent, which is also capable of running without a pinentry as backend, and kwalletaskpass, which can store SSH key passphrases in the KDE Wallet for use with the OpenSSH Agent, and is registered as ssh-askpass alternative.
There are three methods to install kwalletcli 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 kwalletcli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kwalletcli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kwalletcli
Install kwalletcli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kwalletcli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kwalletcli
Install kwalletcli 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 kwalletcli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kwalletcli
How To Uninstall kwalletcli on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the kwalletcli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kwalletcli
Uninstall kwalletcli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kwalletcli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kwalletcli
Remove kwalletcli Configurations and Data
To remove kwalletcli configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kwalletcli
Remove kwalletcli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kwalletcli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kwalletcli
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kwalletcli package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
