How To Install tcpdump on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpdump
on Kali Linux.
What is tcpdump
tcpdump is:
This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network. tcpdump is able to examine IPv4, ICMPv4, IPv6, ICMPv6, UDP, TCP, SNMP, AFS BGP, RIP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SMB, OSPF, NFS and many other packet types.
It can be used to print out the headers of packets on a network interface, filter packets that match a certain expression. You can use this tool to track down network problems, to detect attacks or to monitor network activities.
There are three methods to install tcpdump
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 tcpdump Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tcpdump
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tcpdump
Install tcpdump Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tcpdump
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tcpdump
Install tcpdump 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 tcpdump
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tcpdump
How To Uninstall tcpdump on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the tcpdump
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tcpdump
Uninstall tcpdump And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tcpdump
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcpdump
Remove tcpdump Configurations and Data
To remove tcpdump
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tcpdump
Remove tcpdump configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tcpdump
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcpdump
Dependencies
tcpdump have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpdump
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.