How To Install barbican-common on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install barbican-common on Kali Linux. barbican-common is OpenStack Key Management Service - common files

Introduction

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

What is barbican-common

barbican-common is:

The Barbican project provides services for secure storage, provisioning and management of sensitive client secret information such as encryption keys. It is aims at being useful for all environments, including large ephemeral Clouds.

This package contains common files for Barbican.

There are three methods to install barbican-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 barbican-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 barbican-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install barbican-common

Install barbican-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install barbican-common

Install barbican-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 barbican-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install barbican-common

How To Uninstall barbican-common on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove barbican-common

Uninstall barbican-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove barbican-common

Remove barbican-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge barbican-common

Remove barbican-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge barbican-common

Dependencies

barbican-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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