Installing mtr on Kali Linux

You know that feeling you get as a kid when you receive a new toy and all you want to do is just play with it all day long ? That is how i feel about Kali !

I find myself in the position of documenting the solution for an issue again, after trying to run a mtr. The response i got from the Terminal was “bash: mtr: command not found”. I didn’t panic and i tried to install it from the repository but much to my disappointment i got this :

root@kali:~# apt-get install mtr

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package mtr

Well, that’s a bummer!

The solution was to download the debian package from here.

After the download is complete, go to the location where it was written and extract the files from the debian package using the command:

$ dpkg -x mtr-tiny_0.86-1+b1_amd64.deb /root/Documents

You can specify another location for the extracted files if you wish so.

Use the nano .bashrc command to add an alias.

I added the line : alias mtr='/root/Documents/usr/bin/mtr'

Your alias will need to point to the location where the mtr program was extracted.

Well, this is it !

If you want to log your mtr, just use the command in the picture below:
$ mtr 8.8.8.8 --report -c 10 -n > test_file

I hope you found this useful.

Take care ! :)