How To Install node-faye-websocket on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-faye-websocket on Kali Linux.

What is node-faye-websocket

node-faye-websocket is:

This is a general-purpose WebSocket implementation extracted from the Faye project. It provides classes for easily building WebSocket servers and clients in Node. It does not provide a server itself, but rather makes it easy to handle WebSocket connections within an existing Node application. It does not provide any abstraction other than the standard WebSocket API.

It also provides an abstraction for handling EventSource connections, which are one-way connections that allow the server to push data to the client. They are based on streaming HTTP responses and can be easier to access via proxies than WebSockets.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

There are three methods to install node-faye-websocket 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 node-faye-websocket Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install node-faye-websocket using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-faye-websocket

Install node-faye-websocket Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-faye-websocket using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-faye-websocket

Install node-faye-websocket 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 node-faye-websocket using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-faye-websocket

How To Uninstall node-faye-websocket on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the node-faye-websocket package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-faye-websocket

Uninstall node-faye-websocket And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-faye-websocket and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-faye-websocket

Remove node-faye-websocket Configurations and Data

To remove node-faye-websocket configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-faye-websocket

Remove node-faye-websocket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove node-faye-websocket configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-faye-websocket

Dependencies

node-faye-websocket have the following dependencies:

• node-websocket-driver
• nodejs

References

• node-faye-websocket website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-faye-websocket package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.