How to Install and Uninstall pinentry-gnome3 Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "pinentry-gnome3" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install pinentry-gnome3 on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                pinentry-gnome3
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "pinentry-gnome3" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall pinentry-gnome3 on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                pinentry-gnome3
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pinentry-gnome3 package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: pinentry-gnome3
Source: pinentry
Version: 1.1.0-2
Installed-Size: 130
Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: pinentry, pinentry-x11
Depends: gcr, libassuan0 (>= 2.1.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcr-base-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.26.0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.16), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Recommends: dbus-user-session
Suggests: pinentry-doc
Enhances: gnupg-agent
Description: GNOME 3 PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
Description-md5: e574f1c6e2c931f3f82abcd947a19f35
Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/pinentry/
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk, uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pinentry/pinentry-gnome3_1.1.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 66936
MD5sum: b2395ebe45d91aaeda6516faa0adc830
SHA256: da00bcedfc9d4c3ce9755c5468a078013e3d31246e5669b2ca84052d56c2f5ff