How to Install and Uninstall pinentry-gnome3 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 28,2024

You can also install and uninstall the pinentry-gnome3 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "pinentry-gnome3" package

Please follow the steps below to install pinentry-gnome3 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall pinentry-gnome3 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pinentry-gnome3 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: pinentry-gnome3
Source: pinentry
Version: 1.2.1-1
Installed-Size: 145
Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: pinentry, pinentry-x11
Depends: gcr, libassuan0 (>= 2.1.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), 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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/pinentry/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::graphical, interface::x11, role::program,
uitoolkit::gtk, uitoolkit::ncurses, x11::application
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pinentry/pinentry-gnome3_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 79900
MD5sum: 7acdf39159d1df1bceab1aa4289d24e8
SHA256: 6ba1897626d7e004b87f0a230c4c1f67f536b4a08471e3e800c8f878bab7878b