How To Install strongswan-libcharon on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libcharon on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• libstrongswan
• libc6

References

• strongswan-libcharon website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libcharon package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.