How To Install netcat on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install netcat
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is netcat
netcat is:
This is a “dummy” package that depends on lenny’s default version of netcat, to ease upgrades. It may be safely removed.
There are three methods to install netcat
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 netcat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install netcat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install netcat
Install netcat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install netcat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install netcat
Install netcat 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 netcat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install netcat
How To Uninstall netcat on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the netcat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove netcat
Uninstall netcat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall netcat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove netcat
Remove netcat Configurations and Data
To remove netcat
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge netcat
Remove netcat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove netcat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge netcat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install netcat
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.