Pinentry-curses Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

Pinentry-curses Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

pinentry-curses

curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG

Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers



Section: utils

Install pinentry-curses

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

pinentry-curses

curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG

This package contains a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass phrases. That means it tries to take care that the entered information is not swapped to disk or temporarily stored anywhere. This functionality is particularly useful for entering pass phrases when using encryption software such as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the same. It uses an open protocol and is therefore not tied to particular software. The program contained in this package implements a PIN entry dialog using the curses tool kit, meaning that it is useful for users working in text mode without the X Window System. There are sibling packages that implement PIN entry dialogs that use an X tool kit. If you install any of the graphical packages then this package is not necessary because the sibling packages automatically fall back to text mode if X is not active.

pinentry

Collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol
Install the latest version of pinentry-curses in Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian from terminal. To install the pinentry-curses just copy the above command for your OS and run into terminal. After you run the command it will grab the latest version of pinentry-curses from the respository and install it in your computer/server.