How To Install softether-vpnclient on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install softether-vpnclient
on Debian 11.
What is softether-vpnclient
softether-vpnclient 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 VPN client.
There are three methods to install softether-vpnclient
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-vpnclient 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-vpnclient
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install softether-vpnclient
Install softether-vpnclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install softether-vpnclient
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install softether-vpnclient
Install softether-vpnclient 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-vpnclient
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install softether-vpnclient
How To Uninstall softether-vpnclient on Debian 11
To uninstall only the softether-vpnclient
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove softether-vpnclient
Uninstall softether-vpnclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall softether-vpnclient
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove softether-vpnclient
Remove softether-vpnclient Configurations and Data
To remove softether-vpnclient
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge softether-vpnclient
Remove softether-vpnclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove softether-vpnclient
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge softether-vpnclient
Dependencies
softether-vpnclient have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install softether-vpnclient
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.