How To Install tcpdump.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpdump.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tcpdump.x86_64 is A network traffic monitoring tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpdump.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `tcpdump.x86_64`

Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria. Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic.

We can use yum to install tcpdump.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcpdump.x86_64.

Install tcpdump.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install tcpdump.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tcpdump.x86_64

How To Uninstall tcpdump.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the tcpdump.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove tcpdump.x86_64

tcpdump.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/tcpdump
/usr/sbin/tcpslice
/usr/share/doc/tcpdump-4.9.2
/usr/share/doc/tcpdump-4.9.2/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/tcpdump-4.9.2/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/tcpdump-4.9.2/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/tcpdump-4.9.2/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/tcpdump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tcpslice.8.gz

References

tcpdump.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpdump.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.