How To Install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 8.
What is strongswan-libipsec
The kernel-libipsec plugin provides an IPsec backend that works entirely in userland, using TUN devices and its own IPsec implementation libipsec.
We can use yum or dnf to install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install strongswan-libipsec.
Install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install strongswan-libipsec using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install strongswan-libipsec
Install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install strongswan-libipsec using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install strongswan-libipsec
How To Uninstall strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the strongswan-libipsec package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove strongswan-libipsec
strongswan-libipsec Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/f2218423c56e77db2627998e5c0fcbc6addb81
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/bcf811614c67495f567eaece6924814f20b62b
/usr/lib64/strongswan/libipsec.so.0
/usr/lib64/strongswan/libipsec.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/strongswan/plugins/libstrongswan-kernel-libipsec.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.