How To Install tmperamental on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tmperamental on Kali Linux. tmperamental is LD_PRELOADable library to detect rogue writes to /tmp/

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tmperamental on Kali Linux.

What is tmperamental

tmperamental is:

This friendly library will print a backtrace and abort when an application tries to write to /tmp. This is useful for checking that code respects setting TMPDIR (and friends) in the env.

There are three methods to install tmperamental 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 tmperamental Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tmperamental

Install tmperamental Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tmperamental using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tmperamental

Install tmperamental 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 tmperamental using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tmperamental

How To Uninstall tmperamental on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tmperamental package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tmperamental

Uninstall tmperamental And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tmperamental

Remove tmperamental Configurations and Data

To remove tmperamental configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tmperamental

Remove tmperamental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tmperamental configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tmperamental

Dependencies

tmperamental have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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