How To Install irpas on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is irpas

irpas is:

This package contains a collection of programs used for advanced network operations, testing, and debugging.

CDP and the route injectors can be useful in a production network. Several other tools are useful for security and firewall testing. Finally some tools such as netenum are useful for general admin scripting.

Like all powerful tools, it could cause great damage, so be careful.

 * cdp - Cisco discovery protocol packet sender
 * igrp - IGRP route injector
 * ass - Autonomous system scanner
 * irdp - IRDP sender
 * irdpresponder - IRDP responder
 * itrace - ICMP based traceroute
 * tctrace - TCP SYN based traceroute
 * protos - ICMP based port scanner
 * netmask - Asks for netmask via ICMP
 * file2cable - Dumps any binary file direct to ethernet
 * dfkaa - Troubleshoot devices formerly known as Ascend (Pipeline, etc)
 * netenum - Ping scanner designed for shell scripts
 * hsrp - HSRP failover tester
 * icmp_redirect - ICMP redirection system
 * timestamp - ICMP timestamp requester
 * dhcpx - DHCP server "exerciser"

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install irpas

Install irpas Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install irpas

Install irpas 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 irpas using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install irpas

How To Uninstall irpas on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove irpas

Uninstall irpas And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove irpas

Remove irpas Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge irpas

Remove irpas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge irpas

Dependencies

irpas have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libpcap0.8

References

• irpas website

Summary

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