How To Install tcptrace on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tcptrace

tcptrace is:

Tcptrace is a tool for analyzing and reporting on tcpdump (or other libpcap) dump files. It can summarize the data or generate graph data for use with the gnuplot tool from the gnuplot package. Graph data can be created for throughput, RTT, time sequences, segment size, and cwin.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tcptrace

Install tcptrace Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tcptrace

Install tcptrace 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 tcptrace using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tcptrace

How To Uninstall tcptrace on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tcptrace

Uninstall tcptrace And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcptrace

Remove tcptrace Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tcptrace

Remove tcptrace configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcptrace

Dependencies

tcptrace have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libpcap0.8

References

• tcptrace website

Summary

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