How To Install iog on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is iog

iog is:

IOG is a network traffic grapher designed to record cumulative kB/MB/GB statistics per hour/day/month. It is intended to be simple, fast (supporting thousands of hosts), and well integrated with MRTG. Data for each host is updated hourly and HTML graphs are created. It uses a data consolidation algorithm which allows for a small, non-growing database file for each host. No external graphing libraries or executables are required.

There are three methods to install iog 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 iog Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install iog using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iog

Install iog Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install iog using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install iog

Install iog 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 iog using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iog

How To Uninstall iog on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the iog package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove iog

Uninstall iog And Its Dependencies

To uninstall iog and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iog

Remove iog Configurations and Data

To remove iog configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iog

Remove iog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove iog configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iog

Dependencies

iog have the following dependencies:

• libsnmp-session-perl
• ucf
• debconf
• debconf

References

• iog website

Summary

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