How To Install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 7.
What is strongswan-libipsec
The kernel-libipsec plugin provides an IPsec backend that works entirely in userland, using TUN devices and its own IPsec implementation libipsec.
We can use yum or dnf to install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install strongswan-libipsec.
Install strongswan-libipsec 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-libipsec using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install strongswan-libipsec
Install strongswan-libipsec 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-libipsec using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install strongswan-libipsec
How To Uninstall strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the strongswan-libipsec package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove strongswan-libipsec
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-libipsec on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.