How to Install and Uninstall pinentry-curses Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "pinentry-curses" package

Learn how to install pinentry-curses on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                pinentry-curses
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "pinentry-curses" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall pinentry-curses on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                pinentry-curses
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pinentry-curses package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: pinentry-curses
Source: pinentry
Version: 1.1.0-2
Installed-Size: 121
Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: pinentry
Depends: libassuan0 (>= 2.1.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.16), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: pinentry-doc
Enhances: gnupg-agent
Description: curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
Description-md5: 40c3b46e5e326523fcd237c6508519bf
Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/pinentry/
Tag: interface::text-mode, role::program, scope::utility,
security::authentication, uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pinentry/pinentry-curses_1.1.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 64520
MD5sum: 61f6e7d08491f83a3b10fe98d1f5ee93
SHA256: ee7300195d7c28182097e81c4210ee633922a5ff74881099e456b8d42aa27ab3