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Quick installation of libgcrypt20:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: libgcrypt20
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install libgcrypt20
Package Details | |
| Package: | libgcrypt20 |
| Version: | 1.7.2-2ubuntu1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/ |
| Description: | LGPL Crypto library - runtime library libgcrypt contains cryptographic functions. Many important free ciphers, hash algorithms and public key signing algorithms have been implemented: . Arcfour, Blowfish, CAST5, DES, AES, Twofish, Serpent, rfc2268 (rc2), SEED, Poly1305, Camellia, ChaCha20, IDEA, Salsa, CRC, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPE-MD160, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512, SHAKE128, SHAKE256 Tiger, Whirlpool, DSA, DSA2, ElGamal, RSA, ECC (Curve25519, sec256k1, GOST R 34.10-2001 and GOST R 34.10-2012, etc.) |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 16.10 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | libs |
How to install libgcrypt20 on Ubuntu 16.10?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 16.10 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If libgcrypt20 is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L libgcrypt20' will give followin error.
Installing libgcrypt20:
After system update use the following command to install libgcrypt20:
sudo apt-get install libgcrypt20
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 16.10 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove libgcrypt20 from Ubuntu 16.10?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the libgcrypt20 from Ubuntu 16.10. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the libgcrypt20 following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove libgcrypt20
Following command is used to remove the libgcrypt20 package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove libgcrypt20
This will remove libgcrypt20 and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing libgcrypt20 with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge libgcrypt20
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove libgcrypt20
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with libgcrypt20 package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
