How To Install stenographer-client on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stenographer-client on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is stenographer-client
stenographer-client is:
Stenographer is a full-packet-capture utility for buffering packets to disk for intrusion detection and incident response purposes. It provides a high-performance implementation of NIC-to-disk packet writing, handles deleting those files as disk fills up, and provides methods for reading back specific sets of packets quickly and easily.
This package contains a HTTP-based client.
There are three methods to install stenographer-client 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 stenographer-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stenographer-client using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stenographer-client
Install stenographer-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stenographer-client using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stenographer-client
Install stenographer-client 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 stenographer-client using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stenographer-client
How To Uninstall stenographer-client on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the stenographer-client package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stenographer-client
Uninstall stenographer-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stenographer-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stenographer-client
Remove stenographer-client Configurations and Data
To remove stenographer-client configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stenographer-client
Remove stenographer-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stenographer-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stenographer-client
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stenographer-client package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
