How To Install netsed 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 netsed on Ubuntu.
What is netsed
netsed is:
NetSED is a small and handy utility designed to alter, in real time, the contents of packets forwarded through your network. It is really useful for network packet alteration, forging, or manipulation. NetSED supports:
- black-box protocol auditing - whenever there are two or more proprietary boxes communicating using some undocumented protocol. By enforcing changes in ongoing transmissions, you will be able to test if the examined application can be claimed secure;
- fuzz generating experiments, integrity tests - whenever you do stability tests of an application to see how it cares for data integrity;
- other common use-cases: deceptive transfers, content filtering, protocol conversion - whatever best fits your task at hand.
It ideally complements a tool suite based on ngrep, netcat, and tcpdump.
There are three methods to install netsed 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 netsed Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install netsed using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install netsed
Install netsed Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install netsed using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install netsed
Install netsed 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 netsed using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install netsed
How To Uninstall netsed on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the netsed package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove netsed
Uninstall netsed And Its Dependencies
To uninstall netsed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove netsed
Remove netsed Configurations and Data
To remove netsed configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge netsed
Remove netsed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove netsed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge netsed
Dependencies
netsed have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install netsed package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.