How To Install stun-server on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stun-server
on Debian 9.
What is stun-server
stun-server is:
The STUN protocol (Simple Traversal of UDP through NATs) is described in the IETF RFC 3489, available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3489.txt. It’s used to help clients behind NAT to tunnel incoming calls through. This server is the counterpart to help the client identify the NAT and have it open the proper ports for it.
This package installs only the server part
There are three methods to install stun-server
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stun-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stun-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stun-server
Install stun-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stun-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stun-server
Install stun-server 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 stun-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stun-server
How To Uninstall stun-server on Debian 9
To uninstall only the stun-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stun-server
Uninstall stun-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stun-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stun-server
Remove stun-server Configurations and Data
To remove stun-server
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stun-server
Remove stun-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stun-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stun-server
Dependencies
stun-server have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stun-server
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.