How To Install changetrack on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install changetrack
on Kali Linux.
What is changetrack
changetrack is:
changetrack automatically monitors changes to a set of files. If the files are modified one day and the machine stops working correctly some days later, changetrack will provide information on which files were modified and thus help locate the problem.
If you tell changetrack to use either the line editor ed (the default) or The GNU Revision Control System (RCS), you can recover files to any previous stage. If you do not want to install Perl, try out the filetraq or diffmon package.
changetrack is a filesystem watch, similar to etckeeper.
There are three methods to install changetrack
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install changetrack Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install changetrack
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install changetrack
Install changetrack Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install changetrack
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install changetrack
Install changetrack Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install changetrack
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install changetrack
How To Uninstall changetrack on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the changetrack
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove changetrack
Uninstall changetrack And Its Dependencies
To uninstall changetrack
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove changetrack
Remove changetrack Configurations and Data
To remove changetrack
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge changetrack
Remove changetrack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove changetrack
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge changetrack
Dependencies
changetrack have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install changetrack
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.