How To Install rsyslog-gnutls on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-gnutls on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is rsyslog-gnutls
rsyslog-gnutls is:
This netstream plugin allows rsyslog to send and receive encrypted syslog messages via the syslog-transport-tls IETF standard protocol.
Package: rsyslog-gnutls Architecture: amd64 Version: 8.2001.0-1ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Source: rsyslog Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Michael Biebl [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 90 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.6), rsyslog (= 8.2001.0-1ubuntu1) Suggests: gnutls-bin Filename: pool/universe/r/rsyslog/rsyslog-gnutls_8.2001.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 17424 MD5sum: 1ccb8c7fc3fde96194c0df7b4ff27379 SHA1: 52385cd06912d2e491832a6ff227919eda5b3260 SHA256: 430f77faf812e508decd6bf5e3c95277c4e413d8e9878afbea54eee12ffc614d Homepage: http://www.rsyslog.com/ Description-en: TLS protocol support for rsyslog (GnuTLS) This netstream plugin allows rsyslog to send and receive encrypted syslog messages via the syslog-transport-tls IETF standard protocol.
There are three methods to install rsyslog-gnutls 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 rsyslog-gnutls Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rsyslog-gnutls using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rsyslog-gnutls
Install rsyslog-gnutls Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rsyslog-gnutls using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rsyslog-gnutls
Install rsyslog-gnutls 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 rsyslog-gnutls using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rsyslog-gnutls
How To Uninstall rsyslog-gnutls on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the rsyslog-gnutls package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rsyslog-gnutls
Uninstall rsyslog-gnutls And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rsyslog-gnutls and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rsyslog-gnutls
Remove rsyslog-gnutls Configurations and Data
To remove rsyslog-gnutls configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rsyslog-gnutls
Remove rsyslog-gnutls configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rsyslog-gnutls configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rsyslog-gnutls
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-gnutls package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
