KeePass on Ubuntu 10.04

KeePass is a very popular password management software. One of my client uses this for their systems and I was given a copy of their database. Since I mostly use linux when I am working, I needed a way to get this working on Ubuntu 10.04. Instructions are widely available, but again for my benefit, I have documented them here as step-by-step guide for myself. At the time of this blog post the 2.x version of KeePass was 2.16

Firstly install Mono. For more details refer to the Badger ports website[1].

1. Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file
• Add the lines
• # For mono 2.6 -> needed by KeePass
• deb http://badgerports.org lucid main
2. cd /etc/apt
3. sudo wget http://badgerports.org/directhex.ppa.asc
4. sudo apt-key add directhex.ppa.asc
5. sudo apt-get update
6. sudo apt-get install mono mono-devel
7. mono --version
• # Confirm the mono version is >= 2.6

Download and install the KeePass from the KeePass website[2].

1. sudo mkdir -p /opt/KeePass2
2. cd /opt/KeePass2
3. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/keepass/KeePass-2.16.zip
4. sudo unzip KeePass-2.16.zip

Execute the KeePass application

1. mono /opt/KeePass2/KeePass.exe &

There does appear to be a lot of debug information (am assuming its debug information) written to the terminal, but these should be safe to ignore.

References:

1. http://badgerports.org
2. http://keepass.info