How to Install and Uninstall pinentry-tty Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: April 16,2024

1. Install "pinentry-tty" package

Please follow the guidance below to install pinentry-tty on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall pinentry-tty on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye)

Package: pinentry-tty
Source: pinentry
Version: 1.1.0-4
Installed-Size: 114
Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: pinentry
Depends: libassuan0 (>= 2.1.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), 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_1.1.0-4_amd64.deb
Size: 60616
MD5sum: 0586421e73401210bf07d690e8f8037b
SHA256: 7ff53e0926816844cfec8bf5869d0d6ff677515c4056b86b47281f6d8ff1c333