{"id":9700,"date":"2020-01-06T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9700"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:58:25","slug":"keepassxc-password-manager-2-5-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/keepassxc-password-manager-2-5-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"KeePassXC Password Manager 2.5.2 Released (Ubuntu PPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/keepassx-icon.png\" alt=\"KeePassX 2 YubiKey support\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5492\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KeePassXC, KeePass cross-platform community edition, released version 2.5.2 a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 19.10 via PPA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keepassxc.org\/blog\/2020-01-04-2.5.2-released\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KeePassXC 2.5.2<\/a> features significant stability and usability improvements. Changes in the release include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Show UI warning when entering invalid URLs <\/li>\n<li>Option to use an entry only for HTTP auth<\/li>\n<li>Disable the user interface when merging or saving the database<\/li>\n<li>Ability to hide protected attribute after reveal<\/li>\n<li>Improve GUI tests reliability on Hi-DPI displays<\/li>\n<li>Fix crashes when saving a database to cloud storage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/keepassxc252-600x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/keepassxc252-600x387.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/keepassxc252-450x290.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/keepassxc252-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/keepassxc252.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install KeePassXC 2.5.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, <u>KeePassXC Snap<\/u> package (runs in sandbox) can be easily installed via <b>Ubuntu Software<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>For those prefer native Ubuntu <code>.deb<\/code> package, open terminal from application menu or press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard, and run following commands one by one:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Run command to add the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~phoerious\/+archive\/ubuntu\/keepassxc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official PPA<\/a>, which so far supports for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phoerious\/keepassxc<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/keepassxc-ppa-600x87.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"87\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/keepassxc-ppa-600x87.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/keepassxc-ppa-450x65.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/keepassxc-ppa.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade KeePassXC from previous release via Software Updater:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/upgrade-keepassxc-450x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/upgrade-keepassxc-450x333.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/upgrade-keepassxc-600x445.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/upgrade-keepassxc.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run commands one by one in terminal to install the password manager:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install keepassxc<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the PPA, open <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> and navigate to <b>Other Software<\/b> tab.<\/p>\n<p>To remove KeePassXC .deb package, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove keepassxc<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KeePassXC, KeePass cross-platform community edition, released version 2.5.2 a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 19.10 via PPA. KeePassXC 2.5.2 features significant stability and usability improvements. Changes in the release include: Show UI warning when entering invalid URLs Option to use an entry only for HTTP auth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1538,1322],"class_list":["post-9700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-keepassxc","tag-password-manager"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}