Install Dirmngr On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

Install Dirmngr On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

dirmngr

GNU privacy guard – a free PGP replacement (dummy transitional package)

Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers



Section: utils

Install dirmngr

  • Debian apt-get install dirmngr Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install dirmngr Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S dirmngr Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install dirmngr Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install dirmngr Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install gnupg2 Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install dirmngr Click to copy

gnupg2

GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement (dummy transitional package)

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. This is a dummy transitional package that provides symlinks from gpg2 to gpg.

dirmngr

GNU privacy guard - network certificate management service

dirmngr is a server for managing and downloading OpenPGP and X.509 certificates, as well as updates and status signals related to those certificates. For OpenPGP, this means pulling from the public HKP/HKPS keyservers, or from LDAP servers. For X.509 this includes Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) and Online Certificate Status Protocol updates (OCSP). It is capable of using Tor for network access. dirmngr is used for network access by gpg, gpgsm, and dirmngr-client, among other tools. Unless this package is installed, the parts of the GnuPG suite that try to interact with the network will fail.

gnupg

GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement

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 RFC 4880. GnuPG 1.4 is the standalone, non-modularized series. In contrast to the version 2 series, shipped with the gnupg2 package, it comes with no support for S/MIME and some other tools useful for desktop environments, but also with less dependencies. The gnupg package is built without libcurl. So it does not support HKPS keyservers. Install the gnupg-curl package if you want to use the keyserver helper tools built with libcurl and supporting HKPS.

Installing dirmngr command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of dirmngr 2026 package in your OS.