How To Install network-manager-pptp on Debian 11
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.
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-pptp
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install network-manager-pptp Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-pptp
using apt
by running the following command:
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.
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-pptp
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall network-manager-pptp on Debian 11
To uninstall only the network-manager-pptp
package we can use the following command:
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:
Remove network-manager-pptp Configurations and Data
To remove network-manager-pptp
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
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:
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
.