How To Install balboa-backend-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install balboa-backend-common on Kali Linux.

What is balboa-backend-common

balboa-backend-common is:

balboa is the BAsic Little Book Of Answers. It consumes and indexes observations from passive DNS collection, providing a GraphQL interface to access the aggregated contents of the observations database.

This package contains files common to all backends available in Debian, such as systemd unit files and management tools.

There are three methods to install balboa-backend-common 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 balboa-backend-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install balboa-backend-common

Install balboa-backend-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install balboa-backend-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install balboa-backend-common

Install balboa-backend-common 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 balboa-backend-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install balboa-backend-common

How To Uninstall balboa-backend-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the balboa-backend-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove balboa-backend-common

Uninstall balboa-backend-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove balboa-backend-common

Remove balboa-backend-common Configurations and Data

To remove balboa-backend-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge balboa-backend-common

Remove balboa-backend-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove balboa-backend-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge balboa-backend-common

Dependencies

balboa-backend-common have the following dependencies:

References

• balboa-backend-common website

Summary

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