How To Install clevis-luks on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is clevis-luks
clevis-luks is:
This package allows binding a LUKS encrytped volume to a clevis unlocking policy. For automated unlocking, an unlocker will also be required. See, for example, clevis-dracut and clevis-udisks2.
There are three methods to install clevis-luks
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 clevis-luks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clevis-luks
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clevis-luks
Install clevis-luks Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clevis-luks
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clevis-luks
Install clevis-luks 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 clevis-luks
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clevis-luks
How To Uninstall clevis-luks on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the clevis-luks
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clevis-luks
Uninstall clevis-luks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clevis-luks
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clevis-luks
Remove clevis-luks Configurations and Data
To remove clevis-luks
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clevis-luks
Remove clevis-luks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clevis-luks
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clevis-luks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.