How To Install masscan on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install masscan
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is masscan
masscan is:
MASSCAN is TCP port scanner which transmits SYN packets asynchronously and produces results similar to nmap, the most famous port scanner. Internally, it operates more like scanrand, unicornscan, and ZMap, using asynchronous transmission. It’s a flexible utility that allows arbitrary address and port ranges.
There are three methods to install masscan
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install masscan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install masscan
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install masscan
Install masscan Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install masscan
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install masscan
Install masscan 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 masscan
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install masscan
How To Uninstall masscan on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the masscan
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove masscan
Uninstall masscan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall masscan
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove masscan
Remove masscan Configurations and Data
To remove masscan
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge masscan
Remove masscan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove masscan
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge masscan
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install masscan
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.