How To Install stunnel4 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stunnel4
on Debian 10.
What is stunnel4
stunnel4 is:
The stunnel program is designed to work as SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server. The concept is that having non-SSL aware daemons running on your system you can easily setup them to communicate with clients over secure SSL channel.
stunnel can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used inetd daemons like POP-2, POP-3 and IMAP servers without any changes in the programs’ code.
This package contains a wrapper script for compatibility with stunnel 3.x
There are three methods to install stunnel4
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stunnel4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stunnel4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stunnel4
Install stunnel4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stunnel4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stunnel4
Install stunnel4 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 stunnel4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stunnel4
How To Uninstall stunnel4 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the stunnel4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stunnel4
Uninstall stunnel4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stunnel4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stunnel4
Remove stunnel4 Configurations and Data
To remove stunnel4
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stunnel4
Remove stunnel4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stunnel4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stunnel4
Dependencies
stunnel4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stunnel4
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.