How to Install and Uninstall tcpdump Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: September 28,2024

1. Install "tcpdump" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install tcpdump on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall tcpdump on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: tcpdump
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.99.0-2
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: 1310
Depends: adduser, libc6 (>= 2.14), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.9.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0)
Suggests: apparmor (>= 2.3)
Breaks: apparmor-profiles-extra (<< 1.12~)
Replaces: apparmor-profiles-extra (<< 1.12~)
Filename: pool/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_4.99.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 432320
MD5sum: 8d6e92692413d36320afe95e936e59c7
SHA1: 1536bdbb2737df3be3dca836644c04f475d3897f
SHA256: ad232277709b1e7ab6de63cb435fa3fade94edb90d4872d2a340f9381b5efc46
SHA512: 7edf347620dc00e5fc443cda26ee5f5411605c47ef0d4c50dd6719e2620e175a43fbb9600e3b2e26d4e2533123f1238871d4f6cce7184b5a3f5cd437d4541463
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