How To Install libvdeplug-pcap on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdeplug-pcap
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libvdeplug-pcap
libvdeplug-pcap is:
This libvdeplug module interconnects a client to an interface using the packet capture library (pcap). All the data that is received by this plug is injected into interface and everything captured from that interface is sent to the client.
Please notice that the pcap library captures and injects packets on the net, packets sent by the host are not captured, injected packets are not received by the host. So several clients using libvdeplug_pcap on the same interface of the same host do not communicate among them (nor they communicate with the host).
There are three methods to install libvdeplug-pcap
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libvdeplug-pcap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvdeplug-pcap
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvdeplug-pcap
Install libvdeplug-pcap Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvdeplug-pcap
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvdeplug-pcap
Install libvdeplug-pcap 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 libvdeplug-pcap
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvdeplug-pcap
How To Uninstall libvdeplug-pcap on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libvdeplug-pcap
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvdeplug-pcap
Uninstall libvdeplug-pcap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvdeplug-pcap
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvdeplug-pcap
Remove libvdeplug-pcap Configurations and Data
To remove libvdeplug-pcap
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvdeplug-pcap
Remove libvdeplug-pcap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvdeplug-pcap
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvdeplug-pcap
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvdeplug-pcap
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.