How to Install and Uninstall kcapi-tools Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "kcapi-tools" package

Please follow the guidance below to install kcapi-tools on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                kcapi-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "kcapi-tools" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall kcapi-tools on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                kcapi-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the kcapi-tools package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: kcapi-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2.1-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: libkcapi
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mathieu Malaterre
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 99
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.25), libkcapi1 (>= 1.2.0)
Filename: pool/universe/libk/libkcapi/kcapi-tools_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 24992
MD5sum: 6e6095067250d54d17cc42727741e1cd
SHA1: b85eded16a9197bdb08f6dd76b5e513f129a04a1
SHA256: 5cee40dea433ea8042fd297fb3b036632dab702cf35970aab271219b08941609
SHA512: 90106ebdf1ac1f159666e851b79a87b35b840b07db2bde2f497af8fedc1b6a8769519558df6a970560e1548bb22fb6a0afc451ddde6bca5b84a3103cb7f136c5
Homepage: http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html
Description-en: Command-line tools for Linux Kernel Crypto API
The Linux kernel exports a Netlink interface of type AF_ALG to allow user
space to utilize the kernel crypto API. libkcapi uses this Netlink interface
and exports easy to use APIs so that a developer does not need to consider the
low-level Netlink interface handling.
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The library does not implement any cipher algorithms. All consumer requests
are sent to the kernel for processing. Results from the kernel crypto API
are returned to the consumer via the library API.
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The kernel interface and therefore this library can be used by unprivileged
processes.
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Install this package for the kcapi-dgst, kcapi-enc & kcapi-rng applications
Description-md5: 7eab4ce659860e810ca8109938df8d3f