How To Install percona-toolkit on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install percona-toolkit
on Kali Linux.
What is percona-toolkit
percona-toolkit is:
Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually, including:
- Verify master and replica data consistency
- Efficiently archive rows
- Find duplicate indexes
- Summarize MySQL servers
- Analyze queries from logs and tcpdump
- Collect vital system information when problems occur
There are three methods to install percona-toolkit
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 percona-toolkit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install percona-toolkit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install percona-toolkit
Install percona-toolkit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install percona-toolkit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install percona-toolkit
Install percona-toolkit 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 percona-toolkit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install percona-toolkit
How To Uninstall percona-toolkit on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the percona-toolkit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove percona-toolkit
Uninstall percona-toolkit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall percona-toolkit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove percona-toolkit
Remove percona-toolkit Configurations and Data
To remove percona-toolkit
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge percona-toolkit
Remove percona-toolkit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove percona-toolkit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge percona-toolkit
Dependencies
percona-toolkit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install percona-toolkit
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.