How to Install and Uninstall libgfshare-bin Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "libgfshare-bin" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libgfshare-bin on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libgfshare-bin
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libgfshare-bin" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libgfshare-bin on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libgfshare-bin
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libgfshare-bin package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: libgfshare-bin
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0.0-5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Source: libgfshare
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Simon McVittie
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 55
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgfshare2 (>= 2)
Filename: pool/universe/libg/libgfshare/libgfshare-bin_2.0.0-5_amd64.deb
Size: 13572
MD5sum: c8a7109aae6db2b32bd0ac8fb975e855
SHA1: 9b228f70847c413412b1769243e6faa9e07b2c51
SHA256: 8a3238d1dca0173bcedbf0bd33f0d93fad6ef6bc28c6969621f94fd308478b1f
SHA512: 41d65fb48a519205aee502ca754b1a71434ac362083dae9b4166c3514e6c4b83b8a2f9d481761515e8a0e1dea8e8b3b9cb853bc21ad28c7375bc07ebedce1ef6
Homepage: https://git.gitano.org.uk/libgfshare.git/
Description-en: utilities for multi-way secret-sharing
This package contains the gfsplit and gfcombine binaries.
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gfsplit can be used to split a secret file (like a GPG secret key)
into multiple parts, so that at least some number of those parts are needed
to recover the original file, but any smaller combination of parts is useless
to an attacker. gfcombine is used to combine the parts created by gfsplit.
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For instance, you might split a GPG key using a 3-of-5 share and put one
share on each of three computers, and two shares on a USB memory stick; then
you can use the GPG key on any of those three computers using the memory
stick, but if the memory stick is lost, you can recover the key by
bringing the three computers together.
Description-md5: ae4f1a8c46e105b0850d8d826d420e23