How To Install strongswan-libcharon on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libcharon
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is strongswan-libcharon
strongswan-libcharon 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 contains the charon library, used by IKE client like strongswan-charon, strongswan-charon-cmd or strongswan-nm as well as standard plugins:
- socket-default
- counters
- bypass-lan (disabled by default)
On Linux, it also contains the xfrmi binary which can be used on Linux 4.19+ to create XFRM interfaces (for more information, see https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/RouteBasedVPN)
There are three methods to install strongswan-libcharon
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 strongswan-libcharon 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-libcharon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install strongswan-libcharon
Install strongswan-libcharon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-libcharon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install strongswan-libcharon
Install strongswan-libcharon 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 strongswan-libcharon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install strongswan-libcharon
How To Uninstall strongswan-libcharon on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the strongswan-libcharon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove strongswan-libcharon
Uninstall strongswan-libcharon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strongswan-libcharon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove strongswan-libcharon
Remove strongswan-libcharon Configurations and Data
To remove strongswan-libcharon
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge strongswan-libcharon
Remove strongswan-libcharon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strongswan-libcharon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strongswan-libcharon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libcharon
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.