How to install Angry IP scanner 3.5.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Angry IP Scanner 3.5.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

Angry IP Scanner is an open-source, lightweight, cross-platform network scanner allowing the users to easily scan IP addresses and ports. The software pings all the available IP addresses in the network and resolves its hostname determines the MAC addresses and scans ports. Also, it provides NetBIOS information: computer name, workgroup name, favorite IP address ranges and is capable to export the output as CSV, TXT, XML or IP-Port list files. The Angry IP Scanner functionality can also be extended via third-party plugins and add-ons. It is so simple to install Angry IP Scanner 3.5.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 and this tutorial covers the ground for the same purpose.

Installing Angry IP Scanner

First, begin the process by updating the system repository by making use of the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

And then, make sure you install the gdebi Debian package manager by utilizing the following command since it is essential for the installation of Angry IP Scanner on Ubuntu 18.04.

root@linuxhelp1:~#  apt-get install gdebi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up gdebi-core (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-3) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libpango-perl (1.227-2build1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.24992-1build1) ...

After installing gdebi, download the angry IP scanner application by making use of wget command in the following manner.

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://github.com/angryip/ipscan/releases/download/3.5.2/ipscan_3.5.2_amd64.deb
--2018-04-18 03:15:04--  https://github.com/angryip/ipscan/releases/download/3.5.2/ipscan_3.5.2_amd64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/1968850/c94e7662-cd49-11e7-9654-f3ab4d3ba6d6?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256& X-Amz-
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Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.224.200|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2024152 (1.9M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ ipscan_3.5.2_amd64.deb’ 

ipscan_3.5.2_amd64.deb  100%[==============================> ]   1.93M   590KB/s    in 3.4s    

2018-04-18 03:15:10 (590 KB/s) - ‘ ipscan_3.5.2_amd64.deb’  saved [2024152/2024152]

You shall now install Angry IP scanner using gdebi command by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# gdebi ipscan_3.5.2_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: ca-certificates-java fonts-dejavu-extra java-common libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni libgif7 openjdk-9-jre openjdk-9-jre-headless 

Angry IP Scanner - fast and friendly IP Scanner
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Selecting previously unselected package ipscan.
(Reading database ... 138390 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack ipscan_3.5.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ipscan (3.5.2-1) ...
Setting up ipscan (3.5.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...

The Angry IP scanner is now installed. to open the application go to your Ubuntu search field and type Angry IP scanner in it.

The Angry IP scanner application now appears on your screen.

You can navigate to see the information by going to help menu.

With this, the method to install Angry IP scanner 3.5.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.