How To Install vlan on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlan on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is vlan
vlan is:
This package contains integration scripts for configuring vlan interfaces via ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces). For further details see vlan-interfaces(5) man page in this package.
Please note that these integration scripts only supports a limited set of interface naming schemes, which means you might be better off with writing your own ifupdown hooks using ip(route2) directly in /etc/network/interfaces rather than using this package.
It currently also ships a wrapper script for backwards compatibility called vconfig, that replaces the old deprecated vconfig program with translations to ip(route2) commands. This compatibility shim might be dropped in future releases, please use ip(route2) commands directly.
Your kernel needs vlan support for this to work, see “modinfo 8021q”.
Package: vlan Architecture: all Version: 2.0.4ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: universe/misc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Willem van den Akker [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 49 Depends: iproute2 Filename: pool/universe/v/vlan/vlan_2.0.4ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 11300 MD5sum: f63c5cb692b93c5db8c3040e4900bc6b SHA1: 815cb3f9c177bf880422ce51378000bf60547813 SHA256: 054754d0a8b7c11dca7d493b6c69bd23fde750f59b17c0e6b7448203153e35b3 Description-en: ifupdown integration for vlan configuration This package contains integration scripts for configuring vlan interfaces via ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces). For further details see vlan-interfaces(5) man page in this package.
Please note that these integration scripts only supports a limited set of interface naming schemes, which means you might be better off with writing your own ifupdown hooks using ip(route2) directly in /etc/network/interfaces rather than using this package.
It currently also ships a wrapper script for backwards compatibility called vconfig, that replaces the old deprecated vconfig program with translations to ip(route2) commands. This compatibility shim might be dropped in future releases, please use ip(route2) commands directly.
Your kernel needs vlan support for this to work, see “modinfo 8021q”.
There are three methods to install vlan 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 vlan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vlan using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vlan
Install vlan Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vlan using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vlan
Install vlan 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 vlan using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vlan
How To Uninstall vlan on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the vlan package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vlan
Uninstall vlan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vlan and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlan
Remove vlan Configurations and Data
To remove vlan configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vlan
Remove vlan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vlan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlan
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlan package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
