Complete Guide: Installing lowpan-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2025

1. Install "lowpan-tools" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                lowpan-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "lowpan-tools" package

Learn how to uninstall lowpan-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                lowpan-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lowpan-tools package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: lowpan-tools
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 153
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.3-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7)
Filename: pool/universe/l/lowpan-tools/lowpan-tools_0.3-1_amd64.deb
Size: 40088
MD5sum: 44458e21ea2e208620a7d05999ae55a1
SHA1: 0910b1800d3c30e3e1305955cb25c352afad16a3
SHA256: 5ecaac47fbf9f608d8479d3d192c384960720e01aea0dba8aedc33065a828d1f
Description-en: Base programs for LoWPAN in Linux, the net-tools for LoWPAN
This package provides all basic prorgrams needed for setting up, monitoring
and tuning LoWPAN networks.
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Notice that upstream still flags these tools as experimental software and
says that there is still a number of known bugs and issues. The
software is, however, in productive use at a number of sites and is
working reliably.
Description-md5: 8d8c96dcf2176c07f7c44283be154fed
Homepage: http://linux-zigbee.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu