How To Install kismet-plugins on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install kismet-plugins on Kali Linux. kismet-plugins is wireless sniffer and monitor - plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kismet-plugins on Kali Linux.

What is kismet-plugins

kismet-plugins is:

Kismet is an 802.11 layer-2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It will work with any wireless card that supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a/b/g/n traffic.

It can use other programs to play audio alarms for network events, read out network summaries, or provide GPS coordinates.

This package provides the following extra plugins for Kismet:

  • autowep: detects the WEP key from BSSID and SSID;
  • btscan: basic scan support for the 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) protocol;
  • ptw: performs the Aircrack-NG PTW attack against captured data;
  • spectools: imports data from the spectools spectrum analyzer;
  • syslog: provides supports for alerts using standard unix syslog services.

There are three methods to install kismet-plugins 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 kismet-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kismet-plugins

Install kismet-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kismet-plugins

Install kismet-plugins 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 kismet-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kismet-plugins

How To Uninstall kismet-plugins on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the kismet-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kismet-plugins

Uninstall kismet-plugins And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kismet-plugins

Remove kismet-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove kismet-plugins configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kismet-plugins

Remove kismet-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kismet-plugins

Dependencies

kismet-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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