How To Install strongswan-charon-nm on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-charon-nm on CentOS 7.

What is strongswan-charon-nm

NetworkManager plugin integrates a subset of Strongswan capabilities to NetworkManager.

We can use yum or dnf to install strongswan-charon-nm on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install strongswan-charon-nm.

Install strongswan-charon-nm on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install strongswan-charon-nm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install strongswan-charon-nm

Install strongswan-charon-nm on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install strongswan-charon-nm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install strongswan-charon-nm

How To Uninstall strongswan-charon-nm on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the strongswan-charon-nm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove strongswan-charon-nm

References

• strongswan-charon-nm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-charon-nm on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.