How To Install horst 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 horst on Ubuntu.

What is horst

horst is:

horst is a small, lightweight IEEE802.11 WLAN 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 made for debugging wireless LANs with a focus on getting a quick overview instead of deep packet inspection and has special features for Ad-hoc (IBSS) mode and mesh networks. It can be useful to get a quick overview of what’s going on all wireless LAN channels and to identify problems.

• Shows signal (RSSI) values per station, something hard to get, especially in IBSS mode
• 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, 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 – this is/was a common driver problem on IBSS mode)
• 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, operating modes, source addresses or BSSIDs
• Client/server support for monitoring on remote nodes
• Automatically adds and removes monitor interface

horst is a Linux program and can be used on any wireless LAN interface which supports monitor mode.

There are three methods to install horst 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 horst Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install horst using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install horst

Install horst Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install horst using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install horst

Install horst 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 horst using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install horst

How To Uninstall horst on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the horst package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove horst

Uninstall horst And Its Dependencies

To uninstall horst and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove horst

Remove horst Configurations and Data

To remove horst configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge horst

Remove horst configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove horst configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge horst

Dependencies

horst have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libncurses6
• libnl-3-200
• libnl-genl-3-200
• libtinfo6

References

• horst website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install horst package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.