How To Install libreswan on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreswan
on Kali Linux.
What is libreswan
libreswan is:
Libreswan is an IPsec implementation for Linux. It has support for most of the extensions (RFC + IETF drafts) related to IPsec, including IKEv2, X.509 Digital Certificates, NAT Traversal, and many others.
Libreswan has been forked from Openswan 2.6.38, which was forked from FreeS/WAN 1.99.
The Libreswan IKE daemon is named pluto. It was inherited from the FreeS/WAN project, but provides improved X.509 certificate support and other features.
There are three methods to install libreswan
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libreswan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libreswan
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libreswan
Install libreswan Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libreswan
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libreswan
Install libreswan Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libreswan
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libreswan
How To Uninstall libreswan on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libreswan
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libreswan
Uninstall libreswan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libreswan
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreswan
Remove libreswan Configurations and Data
To remove libreswan
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libreswan
Remove libreswan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libreswan
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreswan
Dependencies
libreswan have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreswan
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.