How to Install and Uninstall gpg-agent Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "gpg-agent" package

This tutorial shows how to install gpg-agent on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall gpg-agent on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: gpg-agent
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.2.20-1ubuntu4
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: 607
Provides: gnupg-agent
Depends: gpgconf (= 2.2.20-1ubuntu4), 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 (= 2.2.20-1ubuntu4)
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_2.2.20-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb
Size: 190924
MD5sum: 24ad740ebc3bb52259e334681197e857
SHA1: 09c7a7c628433e5038f1e4e2aebcf20709e8b668
SHA256: 505ebcdaf96385892c55a661481e09d156039976c61aea91f3b6758b0f213548
SHA512: a766100a4372bca2708fb4bccc7f92227784b0e1c584c3fd810974c26d9f6d5e0c75145d190520051a446085fadf2b9ff27486b0e086519bdfd55f428d9edf8d
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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