How To Install smokeping on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is smokeping

smokeping is:

SmokePing consists of a daemon process which organizes the latency measurements and a CGI which presents the graphs.

With SmokePing you can measure latency and packet loss in your network. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm datastore and to draw pretty graphs giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install smokeping

Install smokeping Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install smokeping

Install smokeping 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 smokeping using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install smokeping

How To Uninstall smokeping on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove smokeping

Uninstall smokeping And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove smokeping

Remove smokeping Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge smokeping

Remove smokeping configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smokeping

Dependencies

smokeping have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• smokeping website

Summary

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