How To Install libdaq2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdaq2
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libdaq2
libdaq2 is:
DAQ is a library that introduces an abstraction layer to PCAP functions facilitation operation in a variety of hardware and software interfaces.
It was written for Snort but it may be useful to other packet processing applicatons.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libdaq2
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 libdaq2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libdaq2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdaq2
Install libdaq2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdaq2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdaq2
Install libdaq2 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 libdaq2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdaq2
How To Uninstall libdaq2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libdaq2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdaq2
Uninstall libdaq2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdaq2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdaq2
Remove libdaq2 Configurations and Data
To remove libdaq2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdaq2
Remove libdaq2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdaq2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdaq2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdaq2
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.