How To Install libwireshark8 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwireshark8
on Debian 9.
What is libwireshark8
libwireshark8 is:
The libwireshark library provides the network packet dissection services developed by the Wireshark project.
There are three methods to install libwireshark8
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libwireshark8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libwireshark8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwireshark8
Install libwireshark8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwireshark8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwireshark8
Install libwireshark8 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libwireshark8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwireshark8
How To Uninstall libwireshark8 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libwireshark8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwireshark8
Uninstall libwireshark8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwireshark8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwireshark8
Remove libwireshark8 Configurations and Data
To remove libwireshark8
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwireshark8
Remove libwireshark8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwireshark8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwireshark8
Dependencies
libwireshark8 have the following dependencies:
- libc-ares2
- libc6
- libgcrypt20
- libgeoip1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnutls30
- libgpg-error0
- libk5crypto3
- libkrb5-3
- liblua5.2-0
- libnghttp2-14
- libsmi2ldbl
- libwiretap6
- libwsutil7
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwireshark8
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.