How To Install debaux on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debaux
on Kali Linux.
What is debaux
debaux is:
This package contains Perl programs and modules to build and publish Debian packages.
debaux-build automatically downloads APT sources before building, applies patches and additional sources. It has options to build the packages in an existing chroot environment, check the generated packages with lintian, install the created packages on your local system or turn them into RPM packages.
debaux-build has experimental support for downloading Perl modules from CPAN and creating the necessary Debian packaging files.
debaux-publish uploads packages and runs the scripts to create the APT sources and packages files on the remote system. debaux-publish doesn’t support the pool structure yet.
There are three methods to install debaux
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 debaux Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debaux
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debaux
Install debaux Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debaux
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debaux
Install debaux 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 debaux
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debaux
How To Uninstall debaux on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the debaux
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debaux
Uninstall debaux And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debaux
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debaux
Remove debaux Configurations and Data
To remove debaux
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debaux
Remove debaux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debaux
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debaux
Dependencies
debaux have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debaux
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.