How To Install softether-vpnclient 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-vpnclient on Ubuntu.

What is `softether-vpnclient`

softether-vpnclient 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 client.

There are three methods to install softether-vpnclient 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-vpnclient 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-vpnclient using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install softether-vpnclient

Install softether-vpnclient Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install softether-vpnclient

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

sudo aptitude -y install softether-vpnclient

How To Uninstall softether-vpnclient on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove softether-vpnclient

Uninstall softether-vpnclient And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove softether-vpnclient

Remove softether-vpnclient Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge softether-vpnclient

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

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

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

Dependencies

softether-vpnclient have the following dependencies:

References

softether-vpnclient website

Summary

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