How To Install barnowl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is barnowl

barnowl is:

A curses-based instant-messaging client supporting the Jabber, IRC, AIM and Zephyr protocols. Much of the functionality is written in Perl, which is supported as an extension language.

This is a fork of ktools software’s owl Zephyr/AIM client.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install barnowl

Install barnowl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install barnowl

Install barnowl 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 barnowl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install barnowl

How To Uninstall barnowl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove barnowl

Uninstall barnowl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove barnowl

Remove barnowl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge barnowl

Remove barnowl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge barnowl

Dependencies

barnowl have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcom-err2
• libglib2.0-0
• libncursesw6
• libperl5.32
• libssl1.1
• libtinfo6
• libzephyr4
• libnet-dns-perl
• libauthen-sasl-perl
• libgssapi-perl
• libio-socket-ssl-perl
• libpar-perl
• libtext-autoformat-perl
• libanyevent-irc-perl
• libclass-accessor-perl
• libglib-perl
• libmime-base64-urlsafe-perl
• libdatetime-perl
• libdatetime-format-strptime-perl
• liburi-perl
• liburi-encode-perl

References

• barnowl website

Summary

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