How To Install dante-server on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dante-server
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dante-server
dante-server is:
Dante is a circuit-level firewall/proxy that can be used to provide convenient and secure network connectivity to a wide range of hosts while requiring only the server Dante runs on to have external network connectivity.
This package provides the socks proxy daemon (danted). The server part of Dante allows socks clients to connect through it to the network.
There are three methods to install dante-server
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 dante-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 dante-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dante-server
Install dante-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dante-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dante-server
Install dante-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dante-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dante-server
How To Uninstall dante-server on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dante-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dante-server
Uninstall dante-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dante-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dante-server
Remove dante-server Configurations and Data
To remove dante-server
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dante-server
Remove dante-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dante-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dante-server
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dante-server
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.