How To Install iprange on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iprange
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is iprange
iprange is:
This tool is capable of managing sets of IPs.
Why to use iprange over any other aggregate ?
- simpler
- supports many input formats, all together in the same file
- faster, actually a lot faster (thanks to the original design by Gabriel Somlo)
- can reduce the subnets/prefixes to produce high-performing netfilter/iptables ipsets
- can compare files with IPs to find if they overlap and to what degree
- can find the IPs common to a set of files
- can exclude IPs (merge a set of files while excluding all IPs matched by another set of files)
There are three methods to install iprange
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install iprange Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iprange
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iprange
Install iprange Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iprange
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iprange
Install iprange 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 iprange
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iprange
How To Uninstall iprange on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the iprange
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iprange
Uninstall iprange And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iprange
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iprange
Remove iprange Configurations and Data
To remove iprange
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iprange
Remove iprange configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iprange
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iprange
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iprange
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.