How To Install stenographer on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stenographer on Debian 10.
What is stenographer
stenographer 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.
There are three methods to install stenographer on Debian 10. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stenographer
Install stenographer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stenographer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stenographer
Install stenographer 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install stenographer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stenographer
How To Uninstall stenographer on Debian 10
To uninstall only the stenographer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stenographer
Uninstall stenographer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stenographer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stenographer
Remove stenographer Configurations and Data
To remove stenographer configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stenographer
Remove stenographer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stenographer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stenographer
Dependencies
stenographer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stenographer package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.