How to Install and Uninstall tcpdump Package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "tcpdump" package

This is a short guide on how to install tcpdump on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)


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

Learn how to uninstall tcpdump on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur):


    
        
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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 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Package: tcpdump
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.99.4-3ubuntu1
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: 1377
Depends: adduser, libc6 (>= 2.34), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.9.1), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0)
Suggests: apparmor (>= 2.3)
Breaks: apparmor-profiles-extra (<< 1.12~)
Replaces: apparmor-profiles-extra (<< 1.12~)
Filename: pool/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_4.99.4-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 501752
MD5sum: 0412e68082a0c58ce9cb646618eb26a1
SHA1: 8ae87a89890298200caea79d2a3ed71b2a1e8631
SHA256: f026a836033ae184ee81cb9f986bce9ff1348e5774fa4ecda6a56c68fab6d261
SHA512: 825ad2850ab913890190205403a880943a1da26ff780e96c0849b2c81f946d48050fcf648a34236e267dbbd0eeb64272d5800f576c3f536a859c428c4a7384c8
Homepage: https://www.tcpdump.org/
Description: command-line network traffic analyzer
Description-md5: f01841bfda357d116d7ff7b7a47e8782
Task: standard