How To Install sntop on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is sntop

sntop is:

Simple network top (sntop) is a curses-based console utility, in the spirit of top, that polls network hosts at a regular interval to determine their connectivity and displays the results in a pretty format. Advanced features, such as automatic HTML generation of results, secure terminal mode, execution of external file on connectivity change, and user/system configure files, are supported.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sntop

Install sntop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sntop

Install sntop 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 sntop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sntop

How To Uninstall sntop on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove sntop

Uninstall sntop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sntop

Remove sntop Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sntop

Remove sntop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sntop

Dependencies

sntop have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libncurses6
• libtinfo6
• fping

References

• sntop website

Summary

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