How To Install softether-vpnserver 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-vpnserver on Ubuntu.

What is `softether-vpnserver`

softether-vpnserver 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 server daemon.

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

sudo apt-get -y install softether-vpnserver

Install softether-vpnserver Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install softether-vpnserver

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

sudo aptitude -y install softether-vpnserver

How To Uninstall softether-vpnserver on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove softether-vpnserver

Uninstall softether-vpnserver And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove softether-vpnserver

Remove softether-vpnserver Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge softether-vpnserver

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

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

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

Dependencies

softether-vpnserver have the following dependencies:

References

softether-vpnserver website

Summary

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