How to Install and Uninstall libgfshare-bin Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "libgfshare-bin" package

Please follow the steps below to install libgfshare-bin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libgfshare-bin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libgfshare-bin
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Installed-Size: 46
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Simon McVittie
Architecture: amd64
Source: libgfshare
Version: 2.0.0-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgfshare2 (>= 2)
Filename: pool/universe/libg/libgfshare/libgfshare-bin_2.0.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 13362
MD5sum: 791aa353e6881af4066ec157d81f29bf
SHA1: 8f2b85f81d8b8a1d11f1a1d0c4e9ed66ca3093a6
SHA256: 7a975121e1c0e2640b78d5f7df9ce28f440639ca1eb13e76f6cdcc948920602f
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
Homepage: http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/libgfshare
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu