How To Install libgnutls-openssl27 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgnutls-openssl27
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libgnutls-openssl27
libgnutls-openssl27 is:
GnuTLS is a portable library which implements the Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS 1.0, 1.2) protocols.
GnuTLS features support for:
- TLS extensions: server name indication, max record size, opaque PRF input, etc.
- authentication using the SRP protocol.
- authentication using both X.509 certificates and OpenPGP keys.
- TLS Pre-Shared-Keys (PSK) extension.
- Inner Application (TLS/IA) extension.
- X.509 and OpenPGP certificate handling.
- X.509 Proxy Certificates (RFC 3820).
- all the strong encryption algorithms (including SHA-256/384/512 and Camellia (RFC 4132)).
This package contains the runtime library of the GnuTLS OpenSSL wrapper.
There are three methods to install libgnutls-openssl27
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libgnutls-openssl27 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgnutls-openssl27
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgnutls-openssl27
Install libgnutls-openssl27 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgnutls-openssl27
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgnutls-openssl27
Install libgnutls-openssl27 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 libgnutls-openssl27
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgnutls-openssl27
How To Uninstall libgnutls-openssl27 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libgnutls-openssl27
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgnutls-openssl27
Uninstall libgnutls-openssl27 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgnutls-openssl27
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgnutls-openssl27
Remove libgnutls-openssl27 Configurations and Data
To remove libgnutls-openssl27
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgnutls-openssl27
Remove libgnutls-openssl27 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgnutls-openssl27
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgnutls-openssl27
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgnutls-openssl27
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.