How To Install tcpspy on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpspy
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tcpspy
tcpspy is:
tcpspy is an administrator’s tool that logs information about incoming and outgoing TCP/IP connections. It’s written in C and uses no libpcap functions, unlike tcpdump.
Connections are selected for logging with rules, similarly to the filter expressions accepted by tcpdump. The following information is logged: username, local address and port, remote address and port, and, optionally, the executable filename.
This Debian version supports IPv4 and IPv6.
There are three methods to install tcpspy
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tcpspy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tcpspy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tcpspy
Install tcpspy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tcpspy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tcpspy
Install tcpspy 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 tcpspy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tcpspy
How To Uninstall tcpspy on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tcpspy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tcpspy
Uninstall tcpspy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tcpspy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcpspy
Remove tcpspy Configurations and Data
To remove tcpspy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tcpspy
Remove tcpspy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tcpspy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcpspy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpspy
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.