Thursday, October 12, 2017

How to install Nmap on Lubuntu 16.04

How to install Nmap on Lubuntu 16.04

Nmap is no doubt the best network scanning tool in the universe, you can scan ip address as well as domain name with nmap. In this article i will show you how to install nmap the network mapper on lubuntu 16.04.

how to install nmap on lubuntu 16.04
  • open command line/terminal (press CTRL + ALT + T)
  • run update command
  • sudo apt-get update
  • install nmap
  • sudo apt-get install nmap
  • done!

Nmap is command line tool so you need to run it from the terminal, here's some example of scanning ip address with nmap.

scanning ip address
nmap -v 192.168.0.100
scanning domain name
nmap -v google.com

I will make a dedicated article on how to use nmap command line, stay tune!

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