How To Install strongswan-scepclient on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-scepclient
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is strongswan-scepclient
strongswan-scepclient 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 SCEP client, an implementation of the Cisco System’s Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP).
Package: strongswan-scepclient 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: 228 Depends: libstrongswan (= 5.8.2-1ubuntu3), libc6 (>= 2.4) Filename: pool/universe/s/strongswan/strongswan-scepclient_5.8.2-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 27636 MD5sum: 1bd2789cb9e6a28afdb1f58d82d520e8 SHA1: 41827898314560d513c9e40d0210c57393a9fc81 SHA256: 93033f4d0d558caeebb414338dac7a83c125c9574248f55050020330f5e4a5bf Homepage: http://www.strongswan.org Description-en: strongSwan IPsec client, SCEP client 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 SCEP client, an implementation of the Cisco System’s Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP).
There are three methods to install strongswan-scepclient
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-scepclient 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-scepclient
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install strongswan-scepclient
Install strongswan-scepclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-scepclient
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install strongswan-scepclient
Install strongswan-scepclient 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-scepclient
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install strongswan-scepclient
How To Uninstall strongswan-scepclient on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the strongswan-scepclient
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove strongswan-scepclient
Uninstall strongswan-scepclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strongswan-scepclient
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove strongswan-scepclient
Remove strongswan-scepclient Configurations and Data
To remove strongswan-scepclient
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge strongswan-scepclient
Remove strongswan-scepclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strongswan-scepclient
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strongswan-scepclient
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-scepclient
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.