How To Install openiked on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openiked
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is openiked
openiked is:
A free implementation of the Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) protocol which performs mutual authentication and which establishes and maintains IPsec VPN security policies and associations (SAs) between peers. It is intended to be a lean, clean, secure, better configurable and interoperable implementation that focusses on supporting the main standards and most important features of IKEv2.
There are three methods to install openiked
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 openiked Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openiked
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openiked
Install openiked Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openiked
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openiked
Install openiked 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 openiked
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openiked
How To Uninstall openiked on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the openiked
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openiked
Uninstall openiked And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openiked
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openiked
Remove openiked Configurations and Data
To remove openiked
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openiked
Remove openiked configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openiked
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openiked
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openiked
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.