How To Install bmon on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is bmon

bmon is:

bmon is a commandline bandwidth monitor which supports various output methods including an interactive curses interface, lightweight HTML output but also simple ASCII output.

Statistics may be distributed over a network using multicast or unicast and collected at some point to generate a summary of statistics for a set of nodes.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bmon

Install bmon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bmon

Install bmon 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 bmon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bmon

How To Uninstall bmon on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bmon

Uninstall bmon And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bmon

Remove bmon Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bmon

Remove bmon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bmon

Dependencies

bmon have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libconfuse2
• libncursesw6
• libnl-3-200
• libnl-route-3-200
• libtinfo6

References

• bmon website

Summary

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