How To Install strongswan-libcharon on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libcharon on Debian 12.
What is strongswan-libcharon
strongswan-libcharon is:
The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard Linux kernel. It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols.
This package contains the charon library, used by IKE client like strongswan-charon, strongswan-charon-cmd or strongswan-nm as well as standard plugins:
- socket-default
- counters
- bypass-lan (disabled by default)
On Linux, it also contains the xfrmi binary which can be used on Linux 4.19+ to create XFRM interfaces (for more information, see https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/RouteBasedVPN)
There are three methods to install strongswan-libcharon on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install strongswan-libcharon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-libcharon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install strongswan-libcharon
Install strongswan-libcharon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-libcharon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install strongswan-libcharon
Install strongswan-libcharon 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 strongswan-libcharon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install strongswan-libcharon
How To Uninstall strongswan-libcharon on Debian 12
To uninstall only the strongswan-libcharon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove strongswan-libcharon
Uninstall strongswan-libcharon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strongswan-libcharon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove strongswan-libcharon
Remove strongswan-libcharon Configurations and Data
To remove strongswan-libcharon configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge strongswan-libcharon
Remove strongswan-libcharon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strongswan-libcharon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strongswan-libcharon
Dependencies
strongswan-libcharon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libcharon package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
