How To Install flent on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flent
on Kali Linux.
What is flent
flent is:
The FLExible Network Tester: Python wrapper to run multiple simultaneous netperf/iperf/ping instances and aggregate the results.
Tests are specified as config files (which are really Python), and various parsers for tool output are supplied. At the moment, parsers for netperf in -D mode, iperf in csv mode and ping/ping6 in -D mode are supplied, as well as a generic parser for commands that just outputs a single number.
Several commands can be run in parallel and, provided they output timestamped values, (which netperf ping and iperf do, the latter with a small patch, available in the misc/ directory), the test data points can be aligned with each other in time, interpolating differences between the actual measurement points. This makes it possible to graph (e.g.) ping times before, during and after a link is loaded.
There are three methods to install flent
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 flent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flent
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flent
Install flent Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flent
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flent
Install flent 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 flent
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flent
How To Uninstall flent on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the flent
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flent
Uninstall flent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flent
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flent
Remove flent Configurations and Data
To remove flent
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flent
Remove flent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flent
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flent
Dependencies
flent have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flent
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.