How To Install acheck-rules on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acheck-rules on Kali Linux.

What is acheck-rules

acheck-rules is:

acheck, any text file checker, is a tool designed to help both translators and reviewers checking and fixing common localisation mistakes according to file format. Rules can be defined to add new checks.

This package provides basic rules to be checked by the acheck script.

There are three methods to install acheck-rules 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 acheck-rules Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install acheck-rules

Install acheck-rules Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install acheck-rules

Install acheck-rules 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 acheck-rules using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install acheck-rules

How To Uninstall acheck-rules on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the acheck-rules package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove acheck-rules

Uninstall acheck-rules And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove acheck-rules

Remove acheck-rules Configurations and Data

To remove acheck-rules configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge acheck-rules

Remove acheck-rules configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge acheck-rules

Dependencies

acheck-rules have the following dependencies:

References

• acheck-rules website

Summary

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