How To Install ubertooth on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ubertooth on Kali Linux.
What is ubertooth
ubertooth is:
Project Ubertooth is an open source wireless development platform suitable for Bluetooth experimentation. This package contains everything necessary to use the hardware dongle.
Ubertooth is capable of sniffing BLE (Bluetooth Smart) connections and it also has some ability to sniff some data from Basic Rate (BR) Bluetooth Classic connections.
In addition to the Bluetooth specific capabilities, there is also a simple spectrum analyzer for the 2.4 GHz band included (ubertooth-specan-ui) which can be used to also observe other things in this frequency band.
There are three methods to install ubertooth 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 ubertooth Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ubertooth using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ubertoothInstall ubertooth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ubertooth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ubertoothInstall ubertooth 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ubertooth using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ubertoothHow To Uninstall ubertooth on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ubertooth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ubertoothUninstall ubertooth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ubertooth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ubertoothRemove ubertooth Configurations and Data
To remove ubertooth configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ubertoothRemove ubertooth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ubertooth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ubertoothDependencies
ubertooth have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ubertooth package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.