How To Install airport-utils on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install airport-utils on Kali Linux.

What is airport-utils

airport-utils is:

This package contains various utilities to manage the Apple AirPort base
stations.

Be aware that Apple released several versions of the AirPort base station;
the original AirPort (“Graphite”) was a rebranded Lucent RG-1000 base
station, doing 802.11a/b. The AirPort Extreme (“Snow”) is an Apple-built
802.11a/b/g base station.

For the original Apple AirPort and the Lucent RG-1000 base stations only:

• airport-config: base station configurator
• airport-linkmon: wireless link monitor, gives information on the wireless
  link quality between the base station and the associated hosts

For the Apple AirPort Extreme base stations only:

• airport2-config: base station configurator
• airport2-portinspector: port maps monitor
• airport2-ipinspector: WAN interface monitoring utility

For all:

• airport-modem: modem control utility, displays modem state, starts/stops
  modem connections, displays the approximate connection time (Extreme only)
• airport-hostmon: wireless hosts monitor, lists wireless hosts connected
  to the base station (see airport2-portinspector for the Snow)

There are three methods to install airport-utils on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install airport-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install airport-utils

Install airport-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install airport-utils

Install airport-utils Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install airport-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install airport-utils

How To Uninstall airport-utils on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the airport-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove airport-utils

Uninstall airport-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall airport-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove airport-utils

Remove airport-utils Configurations and Data

To remove airport-utils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge airport-utils

Remove airport-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge airport-utils

Dependencies

airport-utils have the following dependencies:

• default-jre

References

• airport-utils website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install airport-utils package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.