How To Install libdumbnet1 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdumbnet1 on Kali Linux.

What is libdumbnet1

libdumbnet1 is:

libdumbnet provides a simplified, portable interface to several low-level networking routines, including

• network address manipulation
• kernel arp(4) cache and route(4) table lookup and manipulation
• network firewalling (Ip filter, ipfw, ipchains, pdf, …)
• network interface lookup and manipulation
• raw IP packet and Ethernet frame transmission

libdumbnet is known as libdnet in other distributions, but was renamed in Debian in favour of the older DECnet library ’libdnet'.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libdumbnet1 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 libdumbnet1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libdumbnet1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libdumbnet1

Install libdumbnet1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libdumbnet1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libdumbnet1

Install libdumbnet1 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 libdumbnet1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdumbnet1

How To Uninstall libdumbnet1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libdumbnet1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdumbnet1

Uninstall libdumbnet1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libdumbnet1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdumbnet1

Remove libdumbnet1 Configurations and Data

To remove libdumbnet1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdumbnet1

Remove libdumbnet1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libdumbnet1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdumbnet1

Dependencies

libdumbnet1 have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• libdumbnet1 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdumbnet1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.