How To Install cutter on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cutter on Ubuntu.
What is cutter
cutter is:
Cutter will send packets to both ends of a TCP/IP connection to close the connection. It is designed to be used on a Linux router to disconnect unwanted connections.
Cutter can close all connections to or from a specified ip-address or ip-address/port pair, allowing, as example, close the specific service of a computer. It also can close the connections between two ip-address that use a specific port to deny a certain service to client. Other possibility is close a specific connection from ip-address/port to ip-address/port.
Cutter is not a firewall, but is part of a larger Linux firewall project.
Cutter 1.04 should be considered EXPERIMENTAL.
There are three methods to install cutter on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cutter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cutter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cutter
Install cutter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cutter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cutter
Install cutter Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cutter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cutter
How To Uninstall cutter on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the cutter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cutter
Uninstall cutter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cutter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cutter
Remove cutter Configurations and Data
To remove cutter configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cutter
Remove cutter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cutter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cutter
Dependencies
cutter have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cutter package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.