How To Install vtun on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vtun
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is vtun
vtun is:
VTun is the easiest way to create virtual tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping and compression.
It supports IP, PPP, SLIP, Ethernet and other tunnel types.
VTun is easily and highly configurable, it can be used for various network tasks.
VTun requires the universal TUN/TAP kernel module which can be found at http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/index.html or in the 2.4 and newer Linux kernels.
Note: This program includes an “encryption” feature intended to protect the tunneled data as it travels across the network. However, the protocol it uses is known to be very insecure, and you should not rely on it to deter anyone but a casual eavesdropper. See the included README.Encryption file for more information.
There are three methods to install vtun
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 vtun Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vtun
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vtun
Install vtun Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vtun
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vtun
Install vtun 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 vtun
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vtun
How To Uninstall vtun on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the vtun
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vtun
Uninstall vtun And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vtun
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vtun
Remove vtun Configurations and Data
To remove vtun
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vtun
Remove vtun configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vtun
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vtun
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vtun
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.