How To Install belenios-tool on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install belenios-tool on Ubuntu.
What is belenios-tool
belenios-tool is:
Belenios aims at providing an easy to use voting system, guaranteeing state-of-the-art security, namely vote privacy and verifiability. It can be used in many types of elections, ranging from scientific councils to sport associations.
It consists of a command-line tool and a web server. Both use the same backend and can be used to organize elections and perform verifications.
Security properties of the system are:
- Vote privacy: No one can learn the vote of a voter. Vote privacy relies on the encryption of the votes.
- End-to-end verifiablity: Every voter can check that her vote has been counted and only eligible voters may vote. End-to-end verifiablity relies on the fact that the ballot box is public (voters can check that their ballots have been received) and on the fact that the tally is publicly verifiable (anyone can recount the votes). Moreover, ballots are signed by the voter credential (only eligible voters are able to vote).
This package provides the command-line tool, which is the most convenient way to exercise the verifiability capabilities of the system. It can be used to run an election without using the web server, and to monitor an election running on a web server.
There are three methods to install belenios-tool on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install belenios-tool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install belenios-tool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install belenios-tool
Install belenios-tool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install belenios-tool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install belenios-tool
Install belenios-tool 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 belenios-tool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install belenios-tool
How To Uninstall belenios-tool on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the belenios-tool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove belenios-tool
Uninstall belenios-tool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall belenios-tool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove belenios-tool
Remove belenios-tool Configurations and Data
To remove belenios-tool configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge belenios-tool
Remove belenios-tool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove belenios-tool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge belenios-tool
Dependencies
belenios-tool have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install belenios-tool package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.