How To Install badger on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install badger on Kali Linux.
What is badger
badger is:
BadgerDB is an embeddable, persistent and fast key-value (KV) database written in pure Go. It is the underlying database for Dgraph (https://dgraph.io), a fast, distributed graph database. It’s meant to be a performant alternative to non-Go-based key-value stores like RocksDB. Project Status [Jun 26, 2019] Badger is stable and is being used to serve data sets worth hundreds of terabytes. Badger supports concurrent ACID transactions with serializable snapshot isolation (SSI) guarantees. A Jepsen-style bank test runs nightly for 8h, with –race flag and ensures the maintenance of transactional guarantees. Badger has also been tested to work with filesystem level anomalies, to ensure persistence and consistency.
Badger v1.0 was released in Nov 2017, and the latest version that is data-compatible with v1.0 is v1.6.0.
Badger v2.0, use a new storage format which won’t be compatible with all of the v1.x.
There are three methods to install badger 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 badger Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install badger using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install badgerInstall badger Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install badger using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install badgerInstall badger 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install badger using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install badgerHow To Uninstall badger on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the badger package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove badgerUninstall badger And Its Dependencies
To uninstall badger and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove badgerRemove badger Configurations and Data
To remove badger configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge badgerRemove badger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove badger configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge badgerDependencies
badger have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install badger package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
