How To Install strongswan-nm on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-nm
on Debian 12.
What is strongswan-nm
strongswan-nm is:
The strongSwan VPN suite uses the native IPsec stack in the standard Linux kernel. It supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols.
This plugin provides an interface which allows NetworkManager to configure and control the IKEv2 daemon directly through D-Bus. It is designed to work in conjunction with the network-manager-strongswan package, providing a simple graphical frontend to configure IPsec based VPNs.
There are three methods to install strongswan-nm
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-nm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-nm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install strongswan-nm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-nm
using apt
by running the following command:
Install strongswan-nm 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.
After updating apt database, We can install strongswan-nm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall strongswan-nm on Debian 12
To uninstall only the strongswan-nm
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall strongswan-nm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strongswan-nm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
Remove strongswan-nm Configurations and Data
To remove strongswan-nm
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
Remove strongswan-nm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strongswan-nm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
strongswan-nm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-nm
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.