How To Install charon-systemd on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install charon-systemd on Ubuntu 20.04. charon-systemd is strongSwan IPsec client, systemd support strongSwan IPsec client, systemd support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install charon-systemd on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is charon-systemd

charon-systemd 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-systemd files.

Package: charon-systemd 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: 221 Depends: libstrongswan (= 5.8.2-1ubuntu3), strongswan-swanctl, libc6 (>= 2.4), libsystemd0, strongswan-libcharon (>= 5.8.2) Filename: pool/universe/s/strongswan/charon-systemd_5.8.2-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 18552 MD5sum: 18b805b15fc389391080c3699d59fb5a SHA1: 61609e64fae7a68c2defa7176b3cf34b28127df4 SHA256: 99f86cd2686baf78ff651f76baa578a4b364bd96441f7a871397e58bb2387cd9 Homepage: http://www.strongswan.org Description-en: strongSwan IPsec client, systemd support 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-systemd files.

There are three methods to install charon-systemd 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 charon-systemd 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-systemd using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install charon-systemd

Install charon-systemd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install charon-systemd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install charon-systemd

Install charon-systemd 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 charon-systemd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install charon-systemd

How To Uninstall charon-systemd on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the charon-systemd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove charon-systemd

Uninstall charon-systemd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall charon-systemd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove charon-systemd

Remove charon-systemd Configurations and Data

To remove charon-systemd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge charon-systemd

Remove charon-systemd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove charon-systemd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge charon-systemd

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install charon-systemd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.