How To Install bpfmon on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfmon
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is bpfmon
bpfmon is:
While tcpdump shows what packets are going through the network, bpfmon will show how much in terms of bytes per second and packets per second in a nice pseudo-graphical terminal interface.
bpfmon also supports monitoring an iptables rule that is selected by command line option or selected from a menu.
There are three methods to install bpfmon
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bpfmon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bpfmon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bpfmon
Install bpfmon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bpfmon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bpfmon
Install bpfmon 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bpfmon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bpfmon
How To Uninstall bpfmon on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the bpfmon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bpfmon
Uninstall bpfmon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bpfmon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bpfmon
Remove bpfmon Configurations and Data
To remove bpfmon
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bpfmon
Remove bpfmon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bpfmon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bpfmon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfmon
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.