How to Install and Uninstall pcapfix Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "pcapfix" package

Please follow the guidance below to install pcapfix on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                pcapfix
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "pcapfix" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall pcapfix on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                pcapfix
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pcapfix package on Kali Linux

Package: pcapfix
Version: 1.1.7-2
Installed-Size: 104
Maintainer: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Enhances: tcpdump, wireshark
Size: 39996
SHA256: 8d59185e5a08195f9fc61dabb18ef1365273f0eeb361fe8f920c98e2bf57ad2e
SHA1: a946898362ff39cb8dbea0188ba62758452f0b26
MD5sum: c94b43ebb12aa95895bfd539c5416258
Description: repairs broken pcap and pcapng files
libpcap (Packet CAPture) provides a portable framework for low-level network
monitoring. Network dumps based on libpcap can be made by tcpdump, wireshark
and other tools. Sometimes those dumps can get corrupted by several reasons.
Examples of this are a copy from Linux to Windows with a conversion to DOS/
Windows text file line ending (CR-LF) or a transfer over FTP in ASCII mode
instead of BINARY mode.
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pcapfix tries to repair your broken pcap files, fixing the global header and
recovering the packets by searching and guessing the packet headers.
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pcapfix will first step through the packets top down until it recognizes a
corrupted one by using plausibility checks. After that the tool will brute
force further pcap packet headers by reading the file byte by byte. If another
proper packet is found, pcapfix restores the data in between by adding a
well-formed pcap packet header.
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The PCAP Next Generation Dump File Format (or pcapng for short) is an attempt
to overcome the limitations of the currently widely used (but limited) libpcap
format. Since 1.0.0 version, pcapfix works with pcapng format too.
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://f00l.de/pcapfix
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pcapfix/pcapfix_1.1.7-2_amd64.deb