How To Install plasma-nm-strongswan on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-nm-strongswan on Rocky Linux 8. plasma-nm-strongswan is Strongswan support for plasma-nm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-nm-strongswan on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `plasma-nm-strongswan`

Strongswan support for plasma-nm.

We can use yum or dnf to install plasma-nm-strongswan on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plasma-nm-strongswan.

Install plasma-nm-strongswan on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plasma-nm-strongswan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plasma-nm-strongswan

Install plasma-nm-strongswan on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plasma-nm-strongswan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plasma-nm-strongswan

How To Uninstall plasma-nm-strongswan on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the plasma-nm-strongswan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove plasma-nm-strongswan

plasma-nm-strongswan Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/a2850c907f38617006e3c11ed2e7369760728e
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/libplasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.so
/usr/share/kservices5/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.desktop
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ijekavian/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ijekavianlatin/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/plasmanetworkmanagement_strongswanui.mo

References

plasma-nm-strongswan website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-nm-strongswan on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.