How to Install and Uninstall horst Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "horst" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install horst on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall horst on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: horst
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 108
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Antoine Beaupré
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.2-1build1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libncurses5 (>= 6), libtinfo5 (>= 6)
Filename: pool/universe/h/horst/horst_4.2-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 45326
MD5sum: 30802dcd232a26816974ae73467d5d79
SHA1: 3b4a9b28030522ec935dcf911f5b979ecae5bf29
SHA256: 18f78788157e1b1bb8bbfc54476188b7b11902c193c1f5eba95e648725fb1275
Description-en: Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool
horst is a small, lightweight IEEE802.11 wireless LAN 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
mainly targeted at debugging wireless LANs with a focus on ad-hoc
(IBSS) mode in larger mesh networks. It can be useful to get a quick
overview of what is happening on all wireless LAN channels and to
identify problems.
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* Shows signal/noise values per station
* 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/noise, 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 \u2013 this
is a common driver problem)
* 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 source addresses or BSSIDs
* Client/server support for monitoring on remote nodes
Description-md5: 400ead505ce0c4511a17c0f97db6da96
Homepage: http://br1.einfach.org/tech/horst/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu