How To Install network-manager-openconnect on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-openconnect
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is network-manager-openconnect
network-manager-openconnect is:
NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available. It manages ethernet, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, and provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services.
This package provides a VPN plugin for OpenConnect, an open client for Cisco’s AnyConnect SSL VPN, Juniper’s Pulse Connect Secure and Palo Alto’s GlobalProtect.
There are three methods to install network-manager-openconnect
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install network-manager-openconnect Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-openconnect
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install network-manager-openconnect
Install network-manager-openconnect Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-openconnect
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install network-manager-openconnect
Install network-manager-openconnect Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-openconnect
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install network-manager-openconnect
How To Uninstall network-manager-openconnect on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the network-manager-openconnect
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove network-manager-openconnect
Uninstall network-manager-openconnect And Its Dependencies
To uninstall network-manager-openconnect
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove network-manager-openconnect
Remove network-manager-openconnect Configurations and Data
To remove network-manager-openconnect
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge network-manager-openconnect
Remove network-manager-openconnect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove network-manager-openconnect
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge network-manager-openconnect
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-openconnect
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.