How to Install and Uninstall tcpdump Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "tcpdump" package

This guide let you learn how to install tcpdump on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall tcpdump on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tcpdump
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tcpdump package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: tcpdump
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.9.3-6
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Romain Francoise
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1087
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.5.1), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), adduser
Suggests: apparmor (>= 2.3)
Breaks: apparmor-profiles-extra (<< 1.12~)
Replaces: apparmor-profiles-extra (<< 1.12~)
Filename: pool/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_4.9.3-6_amd64.deb
Size: 369468
MD5sum: 9bc49b26a870a297412dde479f43b76c
SHA1: 321652470dc95c7e34aea9dea692a3e4eb2ba78e
SHA256: c1ec99a4dc6395ee5402a7737e4ea56b1963cc0bf87607814a1f5e7bbcc11f64
SHA512: 8aea334ebe0b67d05a244e72eec684de921845663913d4fe894b525fdbff940d553e6b47ca64dfc3c7f7ef247e33ad1b5c57abc2d8d40b272a633f26bfca5339
Homepage: https://www.tcpdump.org/
Description-en: command-line network traffic analyzer
This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network. tcpdump
is able to examine IPv4, ICMPv4, IPv6, ICMPv6, UDP, TCP, SNMP, AFS
BGP, RIP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SMB, OSPF, NFS and many other packet
types.
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It can be used to print out the headers of packets on a network
interface, filter packets that match a certain expression. You can
use this tool to track down network problems, to detect attacks
or to monitor network activities.
Description-md5: f01841bfda357d116d7ff7b7a47e8782
Task: standard