How To Install strongswan-ikev2 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-ikev2
on Debian 9.
What is strongswan-ikev2
strongswan-ikev2 is:
The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard Linux kernel. It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols.
This package used to install the charon daemon, implementing the IKEv2 protocol. It has been replaced the strongswan-ike package, so it can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install strongswan-ikev2
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 strongswan-ikev2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-ikev2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install strongswan-ikev2
Install strongswan-ikev2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-ikev2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install strongswan-ikev2
Install strongswan-ikev2 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 strongswan-ikev2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install strongswan-ikev2
How To Uninstall strongswan-ikev2 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the strongswan-ikev2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove strongswan-ikev2
Uninstall strongswan-ikev2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strongswan-ikev2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove strongswan-ikev2
Remove strongswan-ikev2 Configurations and Data
To remove strongswan-ikev2
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge strongswan-ikev2
Remove strongswan-ikev2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strongswan-ikev2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strongswan-ikev2
Dependencies
strongswan-ikev2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-ikev2
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.