How To Install bats on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is bats

bats is:

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected. Bats is most useful when testing software written in Bash, but you can use it to test any UNIX program.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bats

Install bats Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bats

Install bats 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 bats using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bats

How To Uninstall bats on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bats

Uninstall bats And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bats

Remove bats Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bats

Remove bats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bats

Dependencies

bats have the following dependencies:

References

• bats website

Summary

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