How To Install softether-vpnbridge on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install softether-vpnbridge on Ubuntu.

What is `softether-vpnbridge`

softether-vpnbridge is:

SoftEther is an open-source cross-platform multi-protocol VPN program.

SoftEther supports:

SSL-VPN, OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3, EtherIP
VPN over ICMP and VPN over DNS
Ethernet-bridging (L2) and IP-routing (L3) over VPN
Embedded dynamic DNS and NAT traversal
AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryption
RADIUS and NT domain user authentication
X.509 client certificates
Packet logging
Web GUI

This package ships the VPN bridge daemon.

There are three methods to install softether-vpnbridge on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install softether-vpnbridge Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install softether-vpnbridge using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install softether-vpnbridge

Install softether-vpnbridge Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install softether-vpnbridge using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install softether-vpnbridge

Install softether-vpnbridge 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 softether-vpnbridge using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install softether-vpnbridge

How To Uninstall softether-vpnbridge on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the softether-vpnbridge package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove softether-vpnbridge

Uninstall softether-vpnbridge And Its Dependencies

To uninstall softether-vpnbridge and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove softether-vpnbridge

Remove softether-vpnbridge Configurations and Data

To remove softether-vpnbridge configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge softether-vpnbridge

Remove softether-vpnbridge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove softether-vpnbridge configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge softether-vpnbridge

Dependencies

softether-vpnbridge have the following dependencies:

References

softether-vpnbridge website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install softether-vpnbridge package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.