How To Install opencryptoki 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 opencryptoki on Ubuntu.
What is opencryptoki
opencryptoki is:
openCryptoki is a PKCS#11 Cryptographic Token Interface Standard implementation. It includes drivers and libraries to enable IBM cryptographic hardware such as Trusted Computing Platform (TPM) cryptographic devices as well as a software token for testing.
This package contains the daemon.
There are three methods to install opencryptoki 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 opencryptoki Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opencryptoki using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opencryptoki
Install opencryptoki Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opencryptoki using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opencryptoki
Install opencryptoki 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 opencryptoki using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opencryptoki
How To Uninstall opencryptoki on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the opencryptoki package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opencryptoki
Uninstall opencryptoki And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opencryptoki and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opencryptoki
Remove opencryptoki Configurations and Data
To remove opencryptoki configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opencryptoki
Remove opencryptoki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opencryptoki configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opencryptoki
Dependencies
opencryptoki have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opencryptoki package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.