How To Install netsed on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install netsed on Kali Linux.

What is netsed

netsed is:

NetSED is a small and handy utility designed to alter, in real time, the contents of packets forwarded through your network. It is really useful for network packet alteration, forging, or manipulation. NetSED supports:

• black-box protocol auditing - whenever there are two or more proprietary boxes communicating using some undocumented protocol. By enforcing changes in ongoing transmissions, you will be able to test if the examined application can be claimed secure;
• fuzz generating experiments, integrity tests - whenever you do stability tests of an application to see how it cares for data integrity;
• other common use-cases: deceptive transfers, content filtering, protocol conversion - whatever best fits your task at hand.

It ideally complements a tool suite based on ngrep, netcat, and tcpdump.

There are three methods to install netsed 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 netsed Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install netsed

Install netsed Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install netsed using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install netsed

Install netsed 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 netsed using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install netsed

How To Uninstall netsed on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the netsed package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove netsed

Uninstall netsed And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove netsed

Remove netsed Configurations and Data

To remove netsed configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge netsed

Remove netsed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge netsed

Dependencies

netsed have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• netsed website

Summary

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