How To Install vlan 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 vlan on Ubuntu.
What is vlan
vlan is:
This package contains integration scripts for configuring vlan interfaces via ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces). For further details see vlan-interfaces(5) man page in this package.
Please note that these integration scripts only supports a limited set of interface naming schemes, which means you might be better off with writing your own ifupdown hooks using ip(route2) directly in /etc/network/interfaces rather than using this package.
It currently also ships a wrapper script for backwards compatibility called vconfig, that replaces the old deprecated vconfig program with translations to ip(route2) commands. This compatibility shim might be dropped in future releases, please use ip(route2) commands directly.
Your kernel needs vlan support for this to work, see “modinfo 8021q”.
There are three methods to install vlan 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 vlan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vlan using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vlan
Install vlan Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vlan using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vlan
Install vlan 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 vlan using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vlan
How To Uninstall vlan on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the vlan package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vlan
Uninstall vlan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vlan and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlan
Remove vlan Configurations and Data
To remove vlan configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vlan
Remove vlan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vlan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlan
Dependencies
vlan have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlan package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.