How To Install osptoolkit on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install osptoolkit on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is osptoolkit
osptoolkit is:
The Open Settlement Protocol (OSP) standard defined by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI TS 101 321) www.etsi.org.
The OSP Toolkit is an open source implementation of the OSP peering protocol and is freely available from www.sourceforge.net. It enables applications for secure multi-lateral peering.
This package contains OSP Toolkit documentation, enroll and test tools.
The enroll program is a utility application for establishing a trusted relationship between an OSP client and OSP servers.
There are three methods to install osptoolkit on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install osptoolkit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install osptoolkit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install osptoolkit
Install osptoolkit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install osptoolkit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install osptoolkit
Install osptoolkit 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 osptoolkit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install osptoolkit
How To Uninstall osptoolkit on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the osptoolkit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove osptoolkit
Uninstall osptoolkit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall osptoolkit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove osptoolkit
Remove osptoolkit Configurations and Data
To remove osptoolkit configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge osptoolkit
Remove osptoolkit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove osptoolkit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osptoolkit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install osptoolkit package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
