How to Install and Uninstall libgcrypt20 Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "libgcrypt20" package

Please follow the guidance below to install libgcrypt20 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libgcrypt20

2. Uninstall "libgcrypt20" package

Learn how to uninstall libgcrypt20 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):

$ sudo apt remove libgcrypt20 $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libgcrypt20 package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: libgcrypt20
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.8.7-5ubuntu2
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: 1241
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.25)
Suggests: rng-tools
Filename: pool/main/libg/libgcrypt20/libgcrypt20_1.8.7-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 467950
MD5sum: 3b329b69cfc879d8d4886b1d94a0a16f
SHA1: 2839dec2a11518c3e5bb2215ce9342aa4f4273ac
SHA256: a510b89f0f0a574fda2bd32eb23c007ea65b7024fef1c9c84d0ec8b7b35dc252
SHA512: 1ef5d9ef281fd9f50e2a82869b71a98759607c8d85680d481f277c4718dc2412fa38ec0e456d8795f4e0058c78718acd4a61612e44a447c0b7988c677817c7b2
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:
.
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, server-minimal