How To Install asciinema on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is asciinema

asciinema is:

Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Enjoy a lightweight, purely text based approach to terminal recording.

This package provides a command line recorder for asciinema.org service or other instance of asciinema server.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install asciinema

Install asciinema Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install asciinema

Install asciinema 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 asciinema using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install asciinema

How To Uninstall asciinema on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove asciinema

Uninstall asciinema And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove asciinema

Remove asciinema Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge asciinema

Remove asciinema configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge asciinema

Dependencies

asciinema have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• asciinema website

Summary

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