How To Install strongswan-pki on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-pki on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is strongswan-pki
strongswan-pki 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 pki tool which allows on to run a simple public key infrastructure.
Package: strongswan-pki 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: 292 Depends: libstrongswan (= 5.8.2-1ubuntu3), libc6 (>= 2.4) Filename: pool/universe/s/strongswan/strongswan-pki_5.8.2-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 55080 MD5sum: 0383645723b70014dfe26f72c9b5a251 SHA1: 2edde71c54aad5d0489c870b07cf04963947c9e1 SHA256: e915c07250d7133621856b1f5d5c5163451d98df49748551961aae3cc3a338bf Homepage: http://www.strongswan.org Description-en: strongSwan IPsec client, pki command 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 pki tool which allows on to run a simple public key infrastructure.
There are three methods to install strongswan-pki 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-pki 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-pki using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install strongswan-pki
Install strongswan-pki Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-pki using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install strongswan-pki
Install strongswan-pki 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-pki using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install strongswan-pki
How To Uninstall strongswan-pki on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the strongswan-pki package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove strongswan-pki
Uninstall strongswan-pki And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strongswan-pki and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove strongswan-pki
Remove strongswan-pki Configurations and Data
To remove strongswan-pki configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge strongswan-pki
Remove strongswan-pki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strongswan-pki configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strongswan-pki
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-pki package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.