How to Install pinentry-curses software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install pinentry-curses software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

pinentry-curses software package provides curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pinentry-curses 

pinentry-curses is installed in your system.

Make ensure the pinentry-curses package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep pinentry-curses *

You will get with pinentry-curses package name, version, architecture and description in a table

pinentry-curses package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Utilities
Package pinentry-curses
Version 0.8.3-1ubuntu1
Description curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
Sub Section Utils


See Also, How to uninstall or remove pinentry-curses software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?