How To Install etherpuppet on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install etherpuppet
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is etherpuppet
etherpuppet is:
Etherpuppet is a small program that will create a virtual interface (TUN/TAP) on one machine from the ethernet interface of another machine through a TCP connection. Everything seen by the real interface will be seen by the virtual one. Everything sent to the virtual interface will be emitted by the real one.
It has been designed because one often has a small machine as their Internet gateway, and sometimes want to run some big applications that need raw access to this interface, for sniffing (Wireshark, etc.) or for crafting packets that do not survive being reassembled, translated, routed, etc.
There are three methods to install etherpuppet
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 etherpuppet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install etherpuppet
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install etherpuppet
Install etherpuppet Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install etherpuppet
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install etherpuppet
Install etherpuppet 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 etherpuppet
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install etherpuppet
How To Uninstall etherpuppet on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the etherpuppet
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove etherpuppet
Uninstall etherpuppet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall etherpuppet
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove etherpuppet
Remove etherpuppet Configurations and Data
To remove etherpuppet
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge etherpuppet
Remove etherpuppet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove etherpuppet
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge etherpuppet
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install etherpuppet
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.