How To Install stenographer on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install stenographer on Kali Linux. stenographer is full-packet-capture utility – server

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 stenographer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stenographer

How To Uninstall stenographer on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stenographer

Remove stenographer Configurations and Data

To remove stenographer configuration and data from Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.