How To Install yersinia on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yersinia
on Debian 9.
What is yersinia
yersinia is:
Yersinia is a framework for performing layer 2 attacks. It is designed to take advantage of some weakeness in different network protocols. It pretends to be a solid framework for analyzing and testing the deployed networks and systems.
Attacks for the following network protocols are implemented in this particular release:
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
- Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP).
- Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP).
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
- Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP).
- 802.1q.
- 802.1x.
- Inter-Switch Link Protocol (ISL).
- VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP).
There are three methods to install yersinia
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install yersinia Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yersinia
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yersinia
Install yersinia Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yersinia
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yersinia
Install yersinia Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install yersinia
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yersinia
How To Uninstall yersinia on Debian 9
To uninstall only the yersinia
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yersinia
Uninstall yersinia And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yersinia
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yersinia
Remove yersinia Configurations and Data
To remove yersinia
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yersinia
Remove yersinia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yersinia
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yersinia
Dependencies
yersinia have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libncurses5
- libnet1
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libpcap0.8
- libtinfo5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yersinia
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.