How To Install flowscan on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flowscan
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is flowscan
flowscan is:
FlowScan is a freely-available network traffic analysis and visualization tool which uses IP flow data to provide a continuous near real-time view of a network’s IP traffic.
FlowScan is a tool to monitor and graph flow information from Cisco and Riverstone routers in near real-time. You can also use FlowScan with flow information generated by programs like fprobe.
There are three methods to install flowscan
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 flowscan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flowscan
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flowscan
Install flowscan Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flowscan
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flowscan
Install flowscan 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 flowscan
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flowscan
How To Uninstall flowscan on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the flowscan
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flowscan
Uninstall flowscan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flowscan
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flowscan
Remove flowscan Configurations and Data
To remove flowscan
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flowscan
Remove flowscan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flowscan
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flowscan
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flowscan
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.