How To Install spectre-meltdown-checker on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on Kali Linux.

What is spectre-meltdown-checker

spectre-meltdown-checker is:

A simple shell script to tell if your Linux installation is vulnerable against the 3 “speculative execution” CVEs that were made public early 2018.

There are three methods to install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install spectre-meltdown-checker using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install spectre-meltdown-checker

Install spectre-meltdown-checker Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install spectre-meltdown-checker using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install spectre-meltdown-checker

Install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spectre-meltdown-checker

How To Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the spectre-meltdown-checker package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spectre-meltdown-checker

Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker And Its Dependencies

To uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spectre-meltdown-checker

Remove spectre-meltdown-checker Configurations and Data

To remove spectre-meltdown-checker configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spectre-meltdown-checker

Remove spectre-meltdown-checker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove spectre-meltdown-checker configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spectre-meltdown-checker

Dependencies

spectre-meltdown-checker have the following dependencies:

References

• spectre-meltdown-checker website

Summary

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