How To Install racoon on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install racoon
on Debian 9.
What is racoon
racoon is:
IPsec (Internet Protocol security) offers end-to-end security for network traffic at the IP layer.
This package is a Linux port of the IKE server from the KAME IPsec implementation on BSD.
There are three methods to install racoon
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install racoon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install racoon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install racoon
Install racoon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install racoon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install racoon
Install racoon 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install racoon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install racoon
How To Uninstall racoon on Debian 9
To uninstall only the racoon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove racoon
Uninstall racoon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall racoon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove racoon
Remove racoon Configurations and Data
To remove racoon
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge racoon
Remove racoon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove racoon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge racoon
Dependencies
racoon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install racoon
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.