How To Install Angry IP Scanner on ubuntu 16.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Angry IP Scanner on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Angry IP Scanner is an open-source and cross-platform system scanner. It is a very fast and simple-to-use platform that scans IP addresses and ports. TCP/IP(Angry IP) network scanner allows users to easily scan IP addresses within any range of their choice with a user-friendly interface.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Angry IP Scanner on an Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Angry IP Scanner on ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt-get commands in the terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install gdebi

Step 2. Installing Angry IP Scanner.

Now use the below commands to install Angry IP scanner on Linux Ubuntu:

wget https://github.com/angryip/ipscan/releases/download/3.7.6/ipscan_3.7.6_amd64.deb

Next, the installation process by simply running the following command which triggers the installation:

gdebi ipscan_3.7.6_amd64.deb

Step 3. Accessing Angry IP Scanner on Ubuntu

Once the Angry IP Scanner installation is complete, You can launch the application straight from your Ubuntu dashboard. In the search field, you can type the application name and when the icon appears, you shall click on it to launch it.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed an Angry IP Scanner. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Angry IP Scanner on your Ubuntu 16.04 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Angry IP Scanner website.