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Installing Age Encryption Tool

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Posted Jan 30, 2023 Updated Feb 1, 2023
By Techno Tim
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What is Age?

age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. It is commonly used in tandem with Mozilla SOPS. It’s open source and you can read more about it on the GitHub repo. Looking for a turial on how use this? [Checkout this video on how to use SOPS and Age for your Git Repos]!

Install

We want to get the latest release of age so we need to look at their github repo for the latest version.

AGE_LATEST_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/FiloSottile/age/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')

Then we’ll use curl to download the latest .tar.gz

curl -Lo age.tar.gz "https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/releases/latest/download/age-v${AGE_LATEST_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz"

Then we’ll want to extract age.tar.gz

tar xf age.tar.gz

Then we’ll move both binaries (age and age-keygen) to /usr/local/bin so we can use them

sudo mv age/age /usr/local/bin
sudo mv age/age-keygen /usr/local/bin

Then we’ll clean up our downloads and extractions

rm -rf age.tar.gz
rm -rf age

Then we can test to make sure age and age-keygen are working by running

age -version

age-keygen -version

Uninstall

To uninstall, it’s as simple as removing the binaries

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/age
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/age-keygen

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