How To Install network-manager-openvpn on Debian 10

Learn how to install network-manager-openvpn on Debian 10 with this tutorial. network-manager-openvpn is network management framework (OpenVPN plugin core)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-openvpn on Debian 10.

What is network-manager-openvpn

network-manager-openvpn is:

NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available. It manages ethernet, WiFi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, and provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services.

This package provides a VPN plugin for OpenVPN.

There are three methods to install network-manager-openvpn on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install network-manager-openvpn Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-openvpn using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install network-manager-openvpn

Install network-manager-openvpn Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-openvpn using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install network-manager-openvpn

Install network-manager-openvpn 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 network-manager-openvpn using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install network-manager-openvpn

How To Uninstall network-manager-openvpn on Debian 10

To uninstall only the network-manager-openvpn package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove network-manager-openvpn

Uninstall network-manager-openvpn And Its Dependencies

To uninstall network-manager-openvpn and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove network-manager-openvpn

Remove network-manager-openvpn Configurations and Data

To remove network-manager-openvpn configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge network-manager-openvpn

Remove network-manager-openvpn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove network-manager-openvpn configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge network-manager-openvpn

Dependencies

network-manager-openvpn have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-openvpn package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.