How To Install beef on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is beef

beef is:

Beef is an interpreter for the Brainfuck programming language.

Its main goals are to be comfortable for the user and to run most Brainfuck programs unchanged; speed is generally quite good.

Beef performs thorough error checking to make sure malformed programs are not executed; it also supports a bunch of command-line options that can be used for configuration or compatibility purposes.

If GVFS is installed, Beef can use any available backend as either output or (where it makes sense) input source. GNU readline is used for interactive input.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install beef

Install beef Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install beef

Install beef 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 beef using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install beef

How To Uninstall beef on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove beef

Uninstall beef And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove beef

Remove beef Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge beef

Remove beef configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge beef

Dependencies

beef have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcattle-1.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libreadline8

References

• beef website

Summary

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