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

Last updated: April 29,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "pinentry-qt" package

This guide let you learn how to install pinentry-qt on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall pinentry-qt 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-qt package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: pinentry-qt
Source: pinentry
Version: 1.2.1-1
Installed-Size: 245
Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: pinentry, pinentry-x11
Depends: libassuan0 (>= 2.1.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.16), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libqt5core5a (>= 5.15.1), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.9.0~beta) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.9.0~beta), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.10.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Suggests: pinentry-doc
Enhances: gnupg-agent
Description: Qt-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
Description-md5: 480e061717e70d5bcfc8be66e3b7d9ab
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/pinentry/
Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses, uitoolkit::qt
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pinentry/pinentry-qt_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 109220
MD5sum: d659e3f096649f728b449c9afed20fb6
SHA256: 20b807eaee583e1c968f10e883e908bcb73a5d733ac1723c6bb7068dd806a937