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

Last updated: April 28,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "pinentry-tty" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install pinentry-tty on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall pinentry-tty on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: pinentry-tty
Source: pinentry
Version: 1.2.1-1
Installed-Size: 125
Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: pinentry
Depends: libassuan0 (>= 2.1.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.16)
Suggests: pinentry-doc
Enhances: gnupg-agent
Description: minimal dumb-terminal PIN or pass-phrase entry for GnuPG
Description-md5: fb1b5491849b43150afbc7d00b1d4d4f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/pinentry/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pinentry/pinentry-tty_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 72580
MD5sum: 0041fc615ecae9590aa581982f9a0971
SHA256: 4fdc00f09966eaafa0d0f8154d8d19d6b217b11336214aae7c23a3c021584f6d