Damselfly is a program that allows you to monitor your network traffic in real-time. It is a useful tool for network administrators or anyone who wants to analyze their network activity. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Damselfly on Debian Latest.
Before we proceed to install Damselfly on Debian, you need to make sure that:
To install Damselfly, you need to add the Damselfly repository to your Debian system. Follow the steps below to do so:
Open a terminal window on your Debian system. You can do this by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T.
Type the following command to add the Damselfly repository:
echo "deb https://damselfly.info/ {distribution} main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/damselfly.list
Replace {distribution} with the codename of your Debian release. For example, if you are using Debian 11 (bullseye), replace {distribution} with bullseye.
After running the above command, you need to add the GPG key for the Damselfly repository. Type the following command:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0x0123456789ABCDEF
Replace 0x0123456789ABCDEF with the GPG key for the Damselfly repository.
Now that you have added the Damselfly repository to your Debian system, you can proceed with the installation of Damselfly using the following command:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install damselfly
This will install Damselfly and its dependencies on your Debian system.
After installing Damselfly, you can start using it by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo damselfly
This will start Damselfly and display the network traffic in real-time.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Damselfly on Debian Latest. We hope you find this tutorial helpful and that you can now easily monitor your network traffic with Damselfly.
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