How To Install racoon on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install racoon on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove racoon
Remove racoon Configurations and Data
To remove racoon configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install racoon package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
