How To Install mencal on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mencal
on Kali Linux.
What is mencal
mencal is:
Mencal is a menstruation calendar written in Perl.
It is a simple variation of the well-known Unix command cal. The main difference is that you can have some periodically repeating days highlighted in color. This can be used to track menstruation (or other) cycles conveniently.
There are three methods to install mencal
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 mencal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mencal
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mencal
Install mencal Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mencal
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mencal
Install mencal 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 mencal
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mencal
How To Uninstall mencal on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mencal
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mencal
Uninstall mencal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mencal
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mencal
Remove mencal Configurations and Data
To remove mencal
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mencal
Remove mencal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mencal
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mencal
Dependencies
mencal have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mencal
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.