How To Install signing-party 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 signing-party on Ubuntu.

What is `signing-party`

signing-party is:

signing-party is a collection for all kinds of PGP/GnuPG related things, including tools for signing keys, keyring analysis, and party preparation.

caff: CA - Fire and Forget signs and mails a key
pgp-clean: removes all non-self signatures from key
pgp-fixkey: removes broken packets from keys
gpg-mailkeys: simply mail out a signed key to its owner
gpg-key2ps: generate PostScript file with fingerprint paper slips
gpgdir: recursive directory encryption tool
gpglist: show who signed which of your UIDs
gpgsigs: annotates list of GnuPG keys with already done signatures
gpgparticipants: create list of party participants for the organiser
gpgwrap: a passphrase wrapper
keyanalyze: minimum signing distance (MSD) analysis on keyrings
keylookup: ncurses wrapper around gpg –search
sig2dot: converts a list of GnuPG signatures to a .dot file
springgraph: creates a graph from a .dot file
keyart: creates a random ASCII art of a PGP key file
gpg-key2latex: generate LaTeX file with fingerprint paper slips

There are three methods to install signing-party 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 signing-party Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install signing-party using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install signing-party

Install signing-party Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install signing-party using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install signing-party

Install signing-party 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 signing-party using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install signing-party

How To Uninstall signing-party on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the signing-party package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove signing-party

Uninstall signing-party And Its Dependencies

To uninstall signing-party and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove signing-party

Remove signing-party Configurations and Data

To remove signing-party configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge signing-party

Remove signing-party configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove signing-party configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge signing-party

Dependencies

signing-party have the following dependencies:

References

signing-party website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install signing-party package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.