How to Install and Uninstall gpg-agent Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "gpg-agent" package

Please follow the guidance below to install gpg-agent on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                gpg-agent
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "gpg-agent" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall gpg-agent on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                gpg-agent
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gpg-agent package on Kali Linux

Package: gpg-agent
Source: gnupg2 (2.2.40-1.1)
Version: 2.2.40-1.1+b1
Installed-Size: 1353
Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: gnupg-agent (<< 2.1.21-4)
Provides: gnupg-agent
Depends: gpgconf (= 2.2.40-1.1+b1), pinentry-curses | pinentry, init-system-helpers (>= 1.52), libassuan0 (>= 2.5.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.10.3), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.42), libnpth0 (>= 0.90)
Recommends: gnupg (= 2.2.40-1.1+b1)
Suggests: dbus-user-session, libpam-systemd, pinentry-gnome3, scdaemon
Breaks: gnupg-agent (<< 2.1.21-4)
Size: 695372
SHA256: 7d368f986e2b80cd18fc85825d5fab167c2110165c729ed93bd5b328947941ee
SHA1: 9ab0f9b126feeb77a9fd3dfea4d9a243e6bb8531
MD5sum: 219d62ba36048db8f305a14e3cce323c
Description: GNU privacy guard - cryptographic agent
GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.
It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures.
It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant
with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC4880.
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This package contains the agent program gpg-agent which handles all
secret key material for OpenPGP and S/MIME use. The agent also
provides a passphrase cache, which is used by pre-2.1 versions of
GnuPG for OpenPGP operations. Without this package, trying to do
secret-key operations with any part of the modern GnuPG suite will
fail.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/
Tag: implemented-in::TODO, role::program, security::cryptography,
security::privacy
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gnupg2/gpg-agent_2.2.40-1.1+b1_amd64.deb