Installing Kismet on Debian Bookworm

Felix Kohlhas
Tags: Linux WiFi OSINT
How to install Kismet on Debian Bookworm.

The guide on the official website does not work, so here are the correct steps:

Adding the repositories

https://github.com/kismetwireless/kismet/issues/428

wget -O - https://www.kismetwireless.net/repos/kismet-release.gpg.key --quiet | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/kismet-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kismet-archive-keyring.gpg] https://www.kismetwireless.net/repos/apt/git/bookworm bookworm main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kismet.list >/dev/null
sudo apt update

Installing libprotobuf23

https://github.com/kismetwireless/kismet/issues/467 https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libprotobuf23

arch=arm64
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/protobuf/libprotobuf23_3.12.4-1_$arch.deb
dpkg -i libprotobuf23_3.12.4-1_$arch.deb

Installing the kismet package

sudo apt install kismet