How To Install liblwipv6-2 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwipv6-2 on Debian 11.
What is liblwipv6-2
liblwipv6-2 is:
LWIPv6 is a user level TCP/IP stack with the following features:
Physical layer: ARP support, TUN/TAP/VDE drivers support.
Network layer: IP forwarding, fragmentation, NAT, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, Router Advertising support.
Transport layer: TCP: congestion control, RTT estimation, fast recovery, fast retransmit; UDP.
Berkeley Socket API: Protocol families PF_INET, PF_INET6, PF_PACKET, partial PF_NETLINK support; Socket types SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM, SOCK_RAW support.
LWIPv6 is used, for instance, by a UMView module to support user level networking and configuration, usually together with VDE.
LWIPv6, along with UMView, is part of the View-OS project: http://wiki.virtualsquare.org
There are three methods to install liblwipv6-2 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblwipv6-2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblwipv6-2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblwipv6-2
Install liblwipv6-2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblwipv6-2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblwipv6-2
Install liblwipv6-2 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 liblwipv6-2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblwipv6-2
How To Uninstall liblwipv6-2 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the liblwipv6-2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblwipv6-2
Uninstall liblwipv6-2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblwipv6-2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblwipv6-2
Remove liblwipv6-2 Configurations and Data
To remove liblwipv6-2 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblwipv6-2
Remove liblwipv6-2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblwipv6-2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblwipv6-2
Dependencies
liblwipv6-2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwipv6-2 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.