How to Install and Uninstall horst Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "horst" package

This tutorial shows how to install horst on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall horst on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                horst
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the horst package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: horst
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.1-2
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Antoine Beaupré
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 151
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libncurses6 (>= 6), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Filename: pool/universe/h/horst/horst_5.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 64588
MD5sum: 9292dba1d3ed0c6df3a06b3cc4e911f1
SHA1: d21014c71fecdcdc4a959ca32f067a3d18558284
SHA256: 0ef9f7b73f2af6adb35864f68cbdb565e59a2a344f6d1d92ccf66723f30a1d79
SHA512: a86b8f7c5b32803e8fd7d411322dad3709689ebbceefb4bf081180b8a2397c1cc7cb36d71616c8d1db90bbddea9f7a13e038437db117956263d22189ad0ef110
Homepage: https://github.com/br101/horst
Description-en: Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool
horst is a small, lightweight IEEE802.11 WLAN analyzer with a text
interface. Its basic function is similar to tcpdump, Wireshark or
Kismet, but it's much smaller and shows different, aggregated
information which is not easily available from other tools. It is
made for debugging wireless LANs with a focus on getting a quick
overview instead of deep packet inspection and has special features
for Ad-hoc (IBSS) mode and mesh networks. It can be useful to get a
quick overview of what's going on all wireless LAN channels and to
identify problems.
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* Shows signal (RSSI) values per station, something hard to get,
especially in IBSS mode
* Calculates channel utilization ("usage") by adding up the amount of
time the packets actually occupy the medium
* "Spectrum Analyzer" shows signal levels and usage per channel
* Graphical packet history, with signal, packet type and physical rate
* Shows all stations per ESSID and the live TSF per node as it is
counting
* Detects IBSS "splits" (same ESSID but different BSSID – this is/was
a common driver problem on IBSS mode)
* Statistics of packets/bytes per physical rate and per packet type
* Has some support for mesh protocols (OLSR and batman)
* Can filter specific packet types, operating modes, source addresses
or BSSIDs
* Client/server support for monitoring on remote nodes
* Automatically adds and removes monitor interface
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horst is a Linux program and can be used on any wireless LAN interface
which supports monitor mode.
Description-md5: bb70bc6d3317152762fb2df6e481ecc2