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Procedures to install and set up KeeFox on Linux.

Debian, Ubuntu, Mint

Install KeePass 2

KeePass 2 is available as the keepass2 package. KeeFox requires version 2.19 or higher.

For Ubuntu Precise, the packaged version is too old, so you must first add the KeePass 2 PPA. Add ppa:jtaylor/keepass to the software sources, either through the GUI or by running

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jtaylor/keepass

In Ubuntu Quantal or later, and Debian Wheezy or later, simply install the package from the repositories:

sudo apt-get install keepass2

You probably also need to install the Mono compilers:

sudo apt-get install mono-complete

Install the Firefox extension

Install the KeeFox Firefox extension the usual way. Restart Firefox.

Install the KeePassRPC plugin

To communicate with KeePass, KeeFox uses the KeePassRPC plugin. You can use the PPA kindly provided by David Lechner, or you can install it manually.

Install KeePassRPC using the PPA

0. Open a terminal window
1. Type the following commands:
2. sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dlech/keepass2-plugins
3. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install keefox

Install KeePassRPC manually

The Firefox extension saves the KeePassRPC plugin to your Firefox profile directory, but you will need to install it manually:

0. Create the KeePass plugins directory: sudo mkdir /usr/lib/keepass2/plugins

1. Locate the KeePassRPC.plgx file in your Firefox profile directory (by default ~/.mozilla/firefox/[randomstring].default/), under /extensions/[email protected]/deps/. Chdir to this directory, and install it using

     sudo cp 'KeePassRPC.plgx' '/usr/lib/keepass2/plugins/'
   

Finalize the installation (for both methods)

Start keepass2 (it should show a dialog while it processes the new plugin) and restart Firefox. A dialog should pop up prompting you to authorize KeeFox.

Install the Thunderbird extension

If you want to use KeeFox in Thunderbird, [do so now](en | Thunderbird).