How To Install charon-cmd on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install charon-cmd on Debian 10.
What is charon-cmd
charon-cmd 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 charon-cmd command, which can be used as a client to connect to a remote IKE daemon.
There are three methods to install charon-cmd on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install charon-cmd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install charon-cmd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install charon-cmd
Install charon-cmd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install charon-cmd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install charon-cmd
Install charon-cmd 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install charon-cmd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install charon-cmd
How To Uninstall charon-cmd on Debian 10
To uninstall only the charon-cmd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove charon-cmd
Uninstall charon-cmd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall charon-cmd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove charon-cmd
Remove charon-cmd Configurations and Data
To remove charon-cmd configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge charon-cmd
Remove charon-cmd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove charon-cmd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge charon-cmd
Dependencies
charon-cmd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install charon-cmd package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.