How to Install and Uninstall libgcrypt20 Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "libgcrypt20" package

Please follow the instructions below to install libgcrypt20 on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libgcrypt20
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libgcrypt20" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libgcrypt20 on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libgcrypt20
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libgcrypt20 package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libgcrypt20
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.8.7-2ubuntu2
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: required
Section: libs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GnuTLS Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1236
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.25)
Suggests: rng-tools
Filename: pool/main/libg/libgcrypt20/libgcrypt20_1.8.7-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 424428
MD5sum: 05a32a1600d04b94f6bf2766da92a435
SHA1: 63d500c751c72a9e1670966d4c8663647e667ce2
SHA256: 32fdb105399aaf6ed0b4f82c7fb2e895b569ab6498ff3e5407efa8ae9cd4bbcb
SHA512: f3c6eddaf59109c17dcea93491407f2f53c4fd12fe663b0aea16cfca780f39948805111d07960507749e16be8c28de9910f5ff2cc6d599af66cbab62d54acb1a
Homepage: https://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/
Description-en: LGPL Crypto library - runtime library
libgcrypt contains cryptographic functions. Many important free
ciphers, hash algorithms and public key signing algorithms have been
implemented:
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Arcfour, Blowfish, CAST5, DES, AES, Twofish, Serpent, rfc2268 (rc2), SEED,
Poly1305, Camellia, ChaCha20, IDEA, Salsa, Blake-2, CRC, MD2, MD4, MD5,
RIPE-MD160, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512,
SHAKE128, SHAKE256, Tiger, Whirlpool, DSA, DSA2, ElGamal, RSA, ECC
(Curve25519, sec256k1, GOST R 34.10-2001 and GOST R 34.10-2012, etc.)
Description-md5: e8ab63c6be1944ea9efde5248663f053
Task: minimal