How To Install vlan on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vlan on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlan

Remove vlan Configurations and Data

To remove vlan configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• iproute2

References

• vlan website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vlan package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.