How To Install grepcidr on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grepcidr on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is grepcidr
grepcidr is:
grepcidr can be used to filter a list of IP addresses against one or more Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) specifications, or arbitrary networks specified by an address range. As with grep, there are options to invert matching and load patterns from a file. grepcidr is capable of comparing thousands or even millions of IPs to networks with little memory usage and in reasonable computation time.
grepcidr has endless uses in network software, including: mail filtering and processing, network security, log analysis, and many custom applications.
There are three methods to install grepcidr 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 grepcidr Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grepcidr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grepcidr
Install grepcidr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grepcidr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grepcidr
Install grepcidr 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 grepcidr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grepcidr
How To Uninstall grepcidr on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the grepcidr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grepcidr
Uninstall grepcidr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grepcidr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grepcidr
Remove grepcidr Configurations and Data
To remove grepcidr configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grepcidr
Remove grepcidr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grepcidr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grepcidr
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grepcidr package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
