How To Install apt-transport-s3 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-transport-s3 on Kali Linux. apt-transport-s3 is APT transport for privately held AWS S3 repositories

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-transport-s3 on Kali Linux.

What is apt-transport-s3

apt-transport-s3 is:

This package contains the APT AWS S3 transport. It makes possible to fetch files from repositories privately held on AWS S3.

To start using S3 based repo it’s enough to have IAM role on the server and to add line similar to the below to apt sources.list (more information in ‘man apt-transport-s3’): deb s3://s3.amazonaws.com/BUCKETNAME wheezy main

There are three methods to install apt-transport-s3 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 apt-transport-s3 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install apt-transport-s3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install apt-transport-s3

Install apt-transport-s3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install apt-transport-s3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install apt-transport-s3

Install apt-transport-s3 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 apt-transport-s3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apt-transport-s3

How To Uninstall apt-transport-s3 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the apt-transport-s3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove apt-transport-s3

Uninstall apt-transport-s3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall apt-transport-s3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt-transport-s3

Remove apt-transport-s3 Configurations and Data

To remove apt-transport-s3 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge apt-transport-s3

Remove apt-transport-s3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove apt-transport-s3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt-transport-s3

Dependencies

apt-transport-s3 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-transport-s3 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.