How To Install multitail on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multitail
on Kali Linux.
What is multitail
multitail is:
multitail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program.
The difference is that this program creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles for faster recognizing which lines are important and which are not.
It is optimized for terminal-sessions through slow links.
There are three methods to install multitail
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 multitail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install multitail
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install multitail
Install multitail Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install multitail
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install multitail
Install multitail 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 multitail
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install multitail
How To Uninstall multitail on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the multitail
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove multitail
Uninstall multitail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall multitail
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove multitail
Remove multitail Configurations and Data
To remove multitail
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge multitail
Remove multitail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove multitail
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multitail
Dependencies
multitail have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multitail
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.