How To Install secrecy 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 secrecy on Ubuntu.
What is secrecy
secrecy is:
libsecrecy is a header only C++ library implementing an encrypted file format based on GCM (Galois Counter Mode) and AES128 or AES256.
The libsecrecy distribution comes with a command line tool called secrecy. This tool has subcommands to manage libsecrecy encryption keys, encrypt, and decrypt files encrypted with the libsecrecy.
There are three methods to install secrecy 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 secrecy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install secrecy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install secrecy
Install secrecy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install secrecy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install secrecy
Install secrecy 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 secrecy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install secrecy
How To Uninstall secrecy on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the secrecy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove secrecy
Uninstall secrecy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall secrecy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove secrecy
Remove secrecy Configurations and Data
To remove secrecy configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge secrecy
Remove secrecy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove secrecy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge secrecy
Dependencies
secrecy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install secrecy package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.