How To Install renattach on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install renattach
on Kali Linux.
What is renattach
renattach is:
Renattach is a small, efficient and surprisingly effective filter designed primarily to offer an additional level of safety to Windows users whose e-mails pass through a UNIX-like mail server. Many modern viruses are spread through e-mail, and renattach combats such viruses by filtering e-mail attachments based on file extension. The idea is to rename potentially dangerous attachments (executable ones) so that the user, or the user’s poorly written e-mail software, does not accidentally execute the attachment.
There are three methods to install renattach
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 renattach Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install renattach
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install renattach
Install renattach Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install renattach
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install renattach
Install renattach 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 renattach
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install renattach
How To Uninstall renattach on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the renattach
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove renattach
Uninstall renattach And Its Dependencies
To uninstall renattach
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove renattach
Remove renattach Configurations and Data
To remove renattach
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge renattach
Remove renattach configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove renattach
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge renattach
Dependencies
renattach have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install renattach
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.