How to Install and Uninstall libgfshare-bin Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "libgfshare-bin" package

This guide let you learn how to install libgfshare-bin on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libgfshare-bin
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libgfshare-bin" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libgfshare-bin on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libgfshare-bin package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: libgfshare-bin
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0.0-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Source: libgfshare
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Simon McVittie
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 44
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgfshare2 (>= 2)
Filename: pool/universe/libg/libgfshare/libgfshare-bin_2.0.0-4_amd64.deb
Size: 13492
MD5sum: 34fa265ac48a7cf79bfbead2e2366207
SHA1: efe1222004880c40d6b83f1b492e4a07be2f54a7
SHA256: ff7a3d292b06fa65dabb06ef4c9524f10011e26da9e678304c0cb69cd05ce600
SHA512: 07672038bfa0c743ede5d629452b5338088255c3a148a105167533daf9c2ea84a7490ceea58df5c77f791183a53d63012bdd55f8404f941bd765981307c57b03
Homepage: https://git.gitano.org.uk/libgfshare.git/
Description-en: utilities for multi-way secret-sharing
This package contains the gfsplit and gfcombine binaries.
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gfsplit can be used to split a secret file (like a GPG secret key)
into multiple parts, so that at least some number of those parts are needed
to recover the original file, but any smaller combination of parts is useless
to an attacker. gfcombine is used to combine the parts created by gfsplit.
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For instance, you might split a GPG key using a 3-of-5 share and put one
share on each of three computers, and two shares on a USB memory stick; then
you can use the GPG key on any of those three computers using the memory
stick, but if the memory stick is lost, you can recover the key by
bringing the three computers together.
Description-md5: ae4f1a8c46e105b0850d8d826d420e23