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KeePass password safe for Linux
By admin | August 7, 2009
Update (2013-06-26): Updated for KeePass 2.22.
KeePass password safe is an effective way to manage your passwords securely and safely without writing them down in text files. However, the current Linux-native port KeePassX is still in development and not quite usable. Here is a port of KeePass 2.x (“Professional Edition”) to Linux without changing anything. This is done with the runtime of the Mono Project, which allows for execution of .NET executables in non-Windows operating systems such as Linux.
Requirements
- Mono (with Winforms support)
- APT-based distribution (RPM-based users can use alien to transform the package)
- GNOME (for menu item – if you want to invoke it on a, say like KDE or XFCE distro, then invoke /usr/bin/keepass)
Installation
- Download the Linux package of KeePass (alternate download if first one doesn’t work).
- Install it (either double click on the downloaded package or run in a terminal in the same folder that you downloaded the package to sudo dpkg –install keepass-2.22.deb)
- To run, go to Applications >> Accessories or run keepass from the command line.
Screenshots
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Topics: Linux | 4 Comments »
June 4th, 2010 at 15:00
Side note: KeePass v2.0 is not compatible with the KeePassX database.
KeePassX only works with KeePass 1.0
This is why running the KeePass 2.0 under mono can be handy.
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