How To Install rsyslog-gssapi on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-gssapi
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is rsyslog-gssapi
rsyslog-gssapi is:
These plugins allow rsyslog to write and/or receive GSSAPI authenticated and encrypted syslog messages. GSSAPI is commonly used for Kerberos authentication.
Package: rsyslog-gssapi Architecture: amd64 Version: 8.2001.0-1ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Source: rsyslog Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Michael Biebl [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 96 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), rsyslog (= 8.2001.0-1ubuntu1) Suggests: krb5-user Filename: pool/universe/r/rsyslog/rsyslog-gssapi_8.2001.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 16124 MD5sum: 5e00493febd7119cc2ffbf46b2697c82 SHA1: 3081dd90eb32f0e01021925ad48c45199925ef0d SHA256: 7c0280bd33da8d29b94e593337393f70a6fac0fdea07df2925834cf4eafc877f Homepage: http://www.rsyslog.com/ Description-en: GSSAPI authentication and encryption support for rsyslog These plugins allow rsyslog to write and/or receive GSSAPI authenticated and encrypted syslog messages. GSSAPI is commonly used for Kerberos authentication.
There are three methods to install rsyslog-gssapi
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rsyslog-gssapi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rsyslog-gssapi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rsyslog-gssapi
Install rsyslog-gssapi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rsyslog-gssapi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rsyslog-gssapi
Install rsyslog-gssapi 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 rsyslog-gssapi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rsyslog-gssapi
How To Uninstall rsyslog-gssapi on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the rsyslog-gssapi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rsyslog-gssapi
Uninstall rsyslog-gssapi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rsyslog-gssapi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rsyslog-gssapi
Remove rsyslog-gssapi Configurations and Data
To remove rsyslog-gssapi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rsyslog-gssapi
Remove rsyslog-gssapi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rsyslog-gssapi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rsyslog-gssapi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-gssapi
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.