How To Install uanytun on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uanytun
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is uanytun
uanytun is:
uAnytun is a tiny implementation of SATP (Secure Anycast Tunneling Protocol). Unlike Anytun which is a full featured implementation uAnytun has no support for multiple connections or synchronisation. It is a small single threaded implementation intended to act as a client on small platforms. SATP defines a protocol used for communication between any combination of unicast and anycast tunnel endpoints. It has less protocol overhead than IPSec in Tunnel mode and allows tunneling of every ETHER TYPE protocol (e.g. ethernet, ip, arp …). SATP directly includes cryptography and message authentication based on the methodes used by SRTP (Secure Real-time Transport Protocol). It is intended to deliver a generic, scalable and secure solution for tunneling and relaying of packets of any protocol.
There are three methods to install uanytun
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install uanytun Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install uanytun
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install uanytun
Install uanytun Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install uanytun
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install uanytun
Install uanytun 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install uanytun
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install uanytun
How To Uninstall uanytun on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the uanytun
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove uanytun
Uninstall uanytun And Its Dependencies
To uninstall uanytun
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove uanytun
Remove uanytun Configurations and Data
To remove uanytun
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge uanytun
Remove uanytun configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove uanytun
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uanytun
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uanytun
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.