How To Install prads on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prads on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is prads
prads is:
PRADS is a Passive Real-time Asset Detection System.
PRADS employs digital fingerprints to recognize services on the wire, and can be used to map your network and monitor for changes in real time.
Real-time passive traffic analysis will also let you detect assets that are just connected to the network for a short period of time, since PRADS can glean useful information from every packet.
PRADS aims to be the one-stop-shop for passive asset detection, and currently does MAC lookups, TCP and UDP OS fingerprinting as well as client and service application matching and a connection state table. Various output plugins include logfile and FIFO and make PRADS a useful replacement for p0f, pads and sancp.
PRADS was built from the ground up for a small footprint and modern networks with IPv6 and gigabits of throughput.
There are three methods to install prads 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 prads Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prads using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prads
Install prads Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prads using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prads
Install prads 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 prads using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prads
How To Uninstall prads on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the prads package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prads
Uninstall prads And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prads and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prads
Remove prads Configurations and Data
To remove prads configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prads
Remove prads configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prads configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prads
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prads package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
