How To Install network-manager-pptp on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-pptp on Debian 11. network-manager-pptp is network management framework (PPTP plugin core)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-pptp on Debian 11.

What is `network-manager-pptp`

network-manager-pptp 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 PPTP, commonly used for connecting to Microsoft VPN servers.

There are three methods to install network-manager-pptp 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 network-manager-pptp 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-pptp using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install network-manager-pptp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install network-manager-pptp

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

sudo aptitude -y install network-manager-pptp

How To Uninstall network-manager-pptp on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove network-manager-pptp

Uninstall network-manager-pptp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall network-manager-pptp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

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

Remove network-manager-pptp Configurations and Data

To remove network-manager-pptp configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

network-manager-pptp have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-pptp package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.