How To Install lksctp-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lksctp-tools on Kali Linux. lksctp-tools is user-space access to Linux kernel SCTP - commandline tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lksctp-tools on Kali Linux.

What is lksctp-tools

lksctp-tools is:

SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a message oriented, reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. RFC 2960 defines the core protocol.

This package is part of the LKSCTP project, and contains libraries and commandline tools to test SCTP functionality:

  • checksctp: determine if kernel supports SCTP
  • withsctp: run existing TCP binaries over SCTP
  • sctp_darn: send and receive messages via SCTP
  • sctp_test: check SCTP functionality from user-space

There are three methods to install lksctp-tools 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 lksctp-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lksctp-tools

Install lksctp-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lksctp-tools

Install lksctp-tools 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 lksctp-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lksctp-tools

How To Uninstall lksctp-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lksctp-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lksctp-tools

Uninstall lksctp-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lksctp-tools

Remove lksctp-tools Configurations and Data

To remove lksctp-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lksctp-tools

Remove lksctp-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lksctp-tools

Dependencies

lksctp-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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