How To Install ylva 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 ylva on Ubuntu.
What is ylva
ylva is:
Ylva is an old Swedish female name, it means “she-wolf” a derivative of Old Norse úlfr. When it comes to the password manager, before the release 1.4, Ylva was known as Titan.
Password management belongs to the command line, deep into the Unix heartland, the shell. Ylva makes managing passwords easy and secure. It’s a traditional command line software written in C. Ylva is very portable and should run fine on most Unix-like operating systems. Ylva is mainly developed on Linux.
Command line password manager is useful. You may choose to run it on a remote server to make your passwords available remotely (over SSH etc.). No need to sync your password database between machines.
Ylva uses OpenSSL (or LibreSSL) for encryption. For password database SQLite is used. Ylva encrypts the database using AES with 256 keys. Encrypted database is authenticated using HMAC. For key generation PKBDF2-SHA256 is used with 200 000 iterations.
Ylva does not stay running, so possible plain text passwords are not in memory except for a very short while. For example, running command ylva –auto-encrypt –list-all would list all the password entries, encrypt the database and then exit. Plain text passwords will be in memory only couple of seconds. This makes it very hard for malware to steal them.
When the database is decrypted, it’s readable only by the owner (chmod 600). Ylva does that automatically for the database file so you don’t have to change the permissions.
There are three methods to install ylva 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 ylva Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ylva using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ylva
Install ylva Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ylva using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ylva
Install ylva 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 ylva using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ylva
How To Uninstall ylva on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the ylva package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ylva
Uninstall ylva And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ylva and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ylva
Remove ylva Configurations and Data
To remove ylva configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ylva
Remove ylva configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ylva configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ylva
Dependencies
ylva have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ylva package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.