How To Install oathtool 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 oathtool on Ubuntu.
What is oathtool
oathtool is:
OATH Toolkit provide components to build one-time password authentication systems. It contains shared C libraries, command line tools and a PAM module. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC 4226), the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC 6238), and Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC, RFC 6030) to manage secret key data. OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms.
This package contains the OATH Toolkit “oathtool” command line tool.
There are three methods to install oathtool 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 oathtool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install oathtool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install oathtool
Install oathtool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install oathtool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install oathtool
Install oathtool 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 oathtool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install oathtool
How To Uninstall oathtool on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the oathtool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove oathtool
Uninstall oathtool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall oathtool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove oathtool
Remove oathtool Configurations and Data
To remove oathtool configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge oathtool
Remove oathtool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove oathtool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oathtool
Dependencies
oathtool have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install oathtool package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.