How To Install strongswan-nm on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-nm on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is strongswan-nm
strongswan-nm is:
The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard Linux kernel. It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols.
This plugin provides an interface which allows NetworkManager to configure and control the IKEv2 daemon directly through D-Bus. It is designed to work in conjunction with the network-manager-strongswan package, providing a simple graphical frontend to configure IPsec based VPNs.
Package: strongswan-nm Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.8.2-1ubuntu3 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: strongswan Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: strongSwan Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 220 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libnm0 (>= 1.1.90), libstrongswan (>= 5.8.2), strongswan-libcharon (>= 5.8.2) Recommends: network-manager-strongswan Replaces: network-manager-strongswan (<= 1.4.1-1~) Filename: pool/universe/s/strongswan/strongswan-nm_5.8.2-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 23896 MD5sum: 0bcebe98643c3ec621fbd970e1de601e SHA1: 780aa545b64dd7a84db3635b3ce67bb102b1df74 SHA256: c2abe79d56e0696286e14bb5b35ba5bc65f4857f65e2a3325d83068203c957cf Homepage: http://www.strongswan.org Description-en: strongSwan plugin to interact with NetworkManager The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard Linux kernel. It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols.
This plugin provides an interface which allows NetworkManager to configure and control the IKEv2 daemon directly through D-Bus. It is designed to work in conjunction with the network-manager-strongswan package, providing a simple graphical frontend to configure IPsec based VPNs.
There are three methods to install strongswan-nm on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-nm 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-nm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install strongswan-nm
Install strongswan-nm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-nm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install strongswan-nm
Install strongswan-nm 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-nm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install strongswan-nm
How To Uninstall strongswan-nm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the strongswan-nm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove strongswan-nm
Uninstall strongswan-nm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strongswan-nm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove strongswan-nm
Remove strongswan-nm Configurations and Data
To remove strongswan-nm configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge strongswan-nm
Remove strongswan-nm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strongswan-nm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strongswan-nm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-nm package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
