How To Install mini-dinstall on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mini-dinstall
on Kali Linux.
What is mini-dinstall
mini-dinstall is:
This program implements a miniature version of the “dinstall” program which installs packages in the Debian archive. It doesn’t require a PostgreSQL database, and is very easy to set up, maintain, and use. mini-dinstall can be run via cron, or as a daemon.
This package is expressly designed for personal apt repositories, and the like. In this vein, it contains fewer sanity checks; for example, it will happily install a lower version of a package. You can also generally just ‘rm’ files from the repository, and mini-dinstall won’t care. In fact, (when run as a daemon) it will automatically detect that the directory changed, and update the Packages file.
There are three methods to install mini-dinstall
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 mini-dinstall Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mini-dinstall
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mini-dinstall
Install mini-dinstall Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mini-dinstall
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mini-dinstall
Install mini-dinstall 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 mini-dinstall
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mini-dinstall
How To Uninstall mini-dinstall on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mini-dinstall
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mini-dinstall
Uninstall mini-dinstall And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mini-dinstall
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mini-dinstall
Remove mini-dinstall Configurations and Data
To remove mini-dinstall
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mini-dinstall
Remove mini-dinstall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mini-dinstall
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mini-dinstall
Dependencies
mini-dinstall have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mini-dinstall
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.