How To Install kismet-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kismet-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 kismet-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kismet-plugins
How To Uninstall kismet-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kismet-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
