How To Install bam on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is bam

bam is:

Bam uses Lua to describe the build process. It’s takes its inspiration for the script files from scons. While scons focuses on being 100% correct when building, bam makes a few sacrifices to acquire fast full and incremental build times.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bam

Install bam Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bam

Install bam 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 bam using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bam

How To Uninstall bam on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bam

Uninstall bam And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bam

Remove bam Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bam

Remove bam configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bam

Dependencies

bam have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• bam website

Summary

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