How To Install nat-traverse on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nat-traverse
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nat-traverse
nat-traverse is:
nat-traverse establishes connections between nodes which are behind NAT gateways, i.e. hosts which do not have public IP addresses. Additionally, you can setup a small VPN by using pppd on top of nat-traverse. nat-traverse does not need an external server on the Internet, and it isn’t necessary to reconfigure the involved NAT gateways, either. nat-traverse works out-of-the-box.
There are three methods to install nat-traverse
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nat-traverse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nat-traverse
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nat-traverse
Install nat-traverse Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nat-traverse
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nat-traverse
Install nat-traverse 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 nat-traverse
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nat-traverse
How To Uninstall nat-traverse on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nat-traverse
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nat-traverse
Uninstall nat-traverse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nat-traverse
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nat-traverse
Remove nat-traverse Configurations and Data
To remove nat-traverse
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nat-traverse
Remove nat-traverse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nat-traverse
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nat-traverse
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nat-traverse
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.