How To Install libcharon-extauth-plugins on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcharon-extauth-plugins on Debian 12.
What is libcharon-extauth-plugins
libcharon-extauth-plugins 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 provides extended authentication plugins for the charon library:
- eap-mschapv2 (EAP-MSCHAPv2 protocol handler using passwords/NT hashes) Used for client side to connect to some VPN concentrators configured for Windows 7+ and modern OSX/iOS using IKEv2 (identify with public key, authenticate with MSCHAPv2).
- xauth-generic (Generic XAuth backend that provides passwords from ipsec.secrets and other credential sets) Used for the client side to connect to VPN concentrators configured for Android and older OSX/iOS using IKEv1 and XAUTH (identify with public key, authenticate with XAUTH password).
These are the “not always, but still more commonly used” plugins, for further needs even more plugins can be found in the package libcharon-extra-plugins.
There are three methods to install libcharon-extauth-plugins on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcharon-extauth-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcharon-extauth-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcharon-extauth-plugins
Install libcharon-extauth-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcharon-extauth-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcharon-extauth-plugins
Install libcharon-extauth-plugins 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 libcharon-extauth-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcharon-extauth-plugins
How To Uninstall libcharon-extauth-plugins on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libcharon-extauth-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcharon-extauth-plugins
Uninstall libcharon-extauth-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcharon-extauth-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcharon-extauth-plugins
Remove libcharon-extauth-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove libcharon-extauth-plugins configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcharon-extauth-plugins
Remove libcharon-extauth-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcharon-extauth-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcharon-extauth-plugins
Dependencies
libcharon-extauth-plugins have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcharon-extauth-plugins package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
