How To Install spiped on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spiped on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is spiped
spiped is:
spiped (pronounced “ess-pipe-dee”) is a utility for creating symmetrically encrypted and authenticated pipes between socket addresses, so that one may connect to one address (e.g., a UNIX socket on localhost) and transparently have a connection established to another address (e.g., a UNIX socket on a different system). This is similar to ‘ssh -L’ functionality, but does not use SSH and requires a pre-shared symmetric key.
spipe (pronounced “ess-pipe”) is a utility which acts as an spiped protocol client (i.e., connects to an spiped daemon), taking input from the standard input and writing data read back to the standard output.
There are three methods to install spiped 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 spiped Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spiped using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spiped
Install spiped Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spiped using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spiped
Install spiped 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 spiped using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spiped
How To Uninstall spiped on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the spiped package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spiped
Uninstall spiped And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spiped and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spiped
Remove spiped Configurations and Data
To remove spiped configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spiped
Remove spiped configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spiped configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spiped
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spiped package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
