Public bug reported: Running Vivid, just updated. Ran "apt-get --purge remove kismet" to remove all kismet. Then reinstalled and the package version that downloads shows the current version of kismet, but when I run "kismet --version" I see an old version.
sudo apt-get install kismet Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: kismet-plugins The following NEW packages will be installed: kismet 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,948 kB of archives. After this operation, 4,773 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe kismet amd64 2013.03.R1b-3 [1,948 kB] Fetched 1,948 kB in 1s (1,081 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package kismet. (Reading database ... 189199 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../kismet_2013.03.R1b-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking kismet (2013.03.R1b-3) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+15.04.20150202-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Setting up kismet (2013.03.R1b-3) ... Installing Kismet with suid-root capture helper ... user@hostname:~$ kismet --version Kismet 2013-03-R0 user@hostname:~$ uname -a Linux hostname 3.19.0-16-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 30 16:09:58 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux username@hostname:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 15.04 Release: 15.04 user@hostname:~$ sudo apt-cache policy kismet kismet: Installed: 2013.03.R1b-3 Candidate: 2013.03.R1b-3 Version table: *** 2013.03.R1b-3 0 500 http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status According to kismetwireless.net, Kismet-2013-03-R1b is the latest version. But it looks like this installs 2013-03-R0. Am I misunderstanding or reading it wrong? ** Affects: kismet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: kismet upgrade-software-version -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1453222 Title: Kismet package version right, kismet bin wrong To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kismet/+bug/1453222/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
