How to Install and Uninstall gpg-agent Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "gpg-agent" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install gpg-agent on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall gpg-agent on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: gpg-agent
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.2.20-1ubuntu3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Source: gnupg2
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 919
Provides: gnupg-agent
Depends: gpgconf (= 2.2.20-1ubuntu3), pinentry-curses | pinentry, init-system-helpers (>= 1.52), libassuan0 (>= 2.5.1), libc6 (>= 2.33), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.8.0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.35), libnpth0 (>= 0.90)
Recommends: gnupg (= 2.2.20-1ubuntu3)
Suggests: dbus-user-session, libpam-systemd, pinentry-gnome3, scdaemon
Breaks: gnupg-agent (<< 2.1.21-4)
Replaces: gnupg-agent (<< 2.1.21-4)
Filename: pool/main/g/gnupg2/gpg-agent_2.2.20-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 232736
MD5sum: 08cc4b90dfb09fb3bc41ccdcce0d344e
SHA1: 1f32ec144d16ef55ad2bf7b3c4b6f08fcdc26c96
SHA256: 8addadba8f6d482d580541f1448fc54090a6b4058b6f2c3d2ccac06dc68cd39e
SHA512: 495ed65a9b28d618329a0b516df2c500055c8b38f99cde79967f042a7b460624fcc39c7a4c9bc7d516c16f39dd72955ffe1ac2851c6d5fb535972be1efb6cd9a
Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/
Description-en: 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: 6c5c3942a5ec2e08c337466bd44b6cde
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