How To Install softether-common on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install softether-common on Debian 11.
What is softether-common
softether-common is:
SoftEther is an open-source cross-platform multi-protocol VPN program.
SoftEther supports:
- SSL-VPN, OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3, EtherIP
- VPN over ICMP and VPN over DNS
- Ethernet-bridging (L2) and IP-routing (L3) over VPN
- Embedded dynamic DNS and NAT traversal
- AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryption
- RADIUS and NT domain user authentication
- X.509 client certificates
- Packet logging
- Web GUI
This package ships the common files used by other SoftEther packages.
There are three methods to install softether-common 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 softether-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install softether-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install softether-common
Install softether-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install softether-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install softether-common
Install softether-common 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 softether-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install softether-common
How To Uninstall softether-common on Debian 11
To uninstall only the softether-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove softether-common
Uninstall softether-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall softether-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove softether-common
Remove softether-common Configurations and Data
To remove softether-common configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge softether-common
Remove softether-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove softether-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge softether-common
Dependencies
softether-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install softether-common package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.