How To Install wireshark-doc on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-doc
on Kali Linux.
What is wireshark-doc
wireshark-doc is:
Wireshark is a network “sniffer” - a tool that captures and analyzes packets off the wire. Wireshark can decode too many protocols to list here.
This package contains Wireshark User’s guide, Wireshark Developer’s Guide and the Lua Reference.
There are three methods to install wireshark-doc
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 wireshark-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wireshark-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wireshark-doc
Install wireshark-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wireshark-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wireshark-doc
Install wireshark-doc 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 wireshark-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wireshark-doc
How To Uninstall wireshark-doc on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the wireshark-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wireshark-doc
Uninstall wireshark-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wireshark-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wireshark-doc
Remove wireshark-doc Configurations and Data
To remove wireshark-doc
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wireshark-doc
Remove wireshark-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wireshark-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wireshark-doc
Dependencies
wireshark-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-doc
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.