How To Install plantuml on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plantuml
on Kali Linux.
What is plantuml
plantuml is:
PlantUML is a program allowing to draw UML diagrams, using a simple human readable text description.
PlantUML supports the following UML diagrams:
- sequence diagram
- use case diagram
- class diagram
- activity diagram
- component diagram
- state diagram
- object diagram
- deployment diagram
- timing diagram
The following non-UML diagrams are also supported:
- wireframe graphical interface (Salt)
- Archimate diagram
- Specification and Description Language (SDL)
- Ditaa diagram
- Gantt diagram
- mathematics with AsciiMath or JLaTeXMath notation
Output images can be generated in PNG, in SVG or LaTeX format. PlantUML also supports generation of ASCII art diagrams (only for sequence diagrams).
There are three methods to install plantuml
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 plantuml Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plantuml
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plantuml
Install plantuml Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plantuml
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plantuml
Install plantuml 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 plantuml
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plantuml
How To Uninstall plantuml on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the plantuml
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plantuml
Uninstall plantuml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plantuml
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plantuml
Remove plantuml Configurations and Data
To remove plantuml
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plantuml
Remove plantuml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plantuml
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plantuml
Dependencies
plantuml have the following dependencies:
- default-jre-headless
- ditaa
- libfop-java
- libbatik-java
- libjlatexmath-java
- libavalon-framework-java
- libcommons-io-java
- libcommons-logging-java
- libxml-commons-external-java
- libxmlgraphics-commons-java
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plantuml
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.