How To Install darkstat on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install darkstat
on Kali Linux.
What is darkstat
darkstat is:
It is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process and serves its statistics to a web browser:
- input and output IP traffic by machines, ports and protocols,
- last minute, hourly, daily and monthly global input and output graphics.
It is known to be smaller (in terms of memory footprint) and stabler than ntop.
There are three methods to install darkstat
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 darkstat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install darkstat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install darkstat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install darkstat
using apt
by running the following command:
Install darkstat 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.
After updating apt database, We can install darkstat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall darkstat on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the darkstat
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall darkstat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall darkstat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove darkstat Configurations and Data
To remove darkstat
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove darkstat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove darkstat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
darkstat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install darkstat
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.