How To Install wireguard-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireguard-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wireguard-tools
wireguard-tools is:
WireGuard is a novel VPN that runs inside the Linux Kernel and uses state-of-the-art cryptography (the “Noise” protocol). It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for many different circumstances. It runs over UDP.
This package contains command-line tools to interact with the WireGuard kernel module. Currently, it provides only a single tool:
wg: set and retrieve configuration of WireGuard interfaces
There are three methods to install wireguard-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wireguard-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wireguard-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wireguard-tools
Install wireguard-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wireguard-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wireguard-tools
Install wireguard-tools 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 wireguard-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wireguard-tools
How To Uninstall wireguard-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wireguard-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wireguard-tools
Uninstall wireguard-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wireguard-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wireguard-tools
Remove wireguard-tools Configurations and Data
To remove wireguard-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wireguard-tools
Remove wireguard-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wireguard-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wireguard-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireguard-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
