Background

As of now, RustNet is not available in the official Debian 13 repositories. Manual installation is required, which downloads debian packages from GitHub releases. We can call GitHub public API to retrieve the latest release and download the debian package automatically.

Also, rustnet supports GeoLite2 database for IP geolocation. We can download the latest GeoLite2 database from unofficial GitHub releases and place it in /root directory. When you login as the root user, rustnet will automatically load the GeoLite2 database in /root directory. You could put the database in any of the supported paths too. (If you have an MaxMind account, you could use the tool sudo apt install geoipupdate mmdb-bin instead`.)

root@localhost:~# rustnet -h
Cross-platform network monitoring tool

Usage: rustnet [OPTIONS]

Options:
// ...
      --geoip-country <PATH>
          Path to GeoLite2-Country.mmdb database. Auto-discovered from: ./resources/geoip2, $XDG_DATA_HOME/rustnet/geoip, ~/.local/share/rustnet/geoip, /usr/share/GeoIP, /usr/local/share/GeoIP, /opt/homebrew/share/GeoIP, /var/lib/GeoIP
      --geoip-asn <PATH>
          Path to GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb database (same search paths as --geoip-country)
      --geoip-city <PATH>
          Path to GeoLite2-City.mmdb database (same search paths as --geoip-country; superset of Country — provides city name and postal code in addition to country)
      --no-geoip
          Disable GeoIP lookups entirely
// ...

Script

This script assumes root user. Run sudo su first if you are not root.

deb="/root/rustnet.deb"

arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"
case "$arch" in
amd64|arm64|armhf) ;;
*) echo "Unsupported architecture for RustNet: $arch" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac

url="$(
curl -fsSL https://api.github.com/repos/domcyrus/rustnet/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url" \
| grep -io "https://[^\"]*rustnet_linuxdeb_${arch}\\.deb" \
| head -n1
)"

test -n "$url"
wget -q "$url" -O "$deb"
dpkg -i "$deb" || apt-get install -f -y
rm -f "$deb"

cd /root
wget -qO- https://api.github.com/repos/P3TERX/GeoLite.mmdb/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url" \
| grep -E "GeoLite2-(ASN|City|Country)\.mmdb" \
| cut -d '"' -f 4 \
| wget -qi -

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