How To Install biff on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is biff

biff is:

biff is a small program that prints a message to your terminal when new email arrives. Actually, the message is printed by the comsat daemon, and biff just enables/disables the u+x permission flag for the terminal, which comsat uses to determine whether or not to write to your terminal.

biff is mainly of historic interest, since there are much better alternatives (such as xlbiff and gbuffy) that are network-aware and do not require a daemon. Although there are no known security problems, running additional services is often considered risky.

By default, the biff service is disabled. To use biff email notification, you must enable this service by running ‘update-inetd –enable biff’ after the package is installed. You may also need to modify the configuration of your mail transport agent to enable comsat notification.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install biff

Install biff Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install biff

Install biff 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 biff using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install biff

How To Uninstall biff on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove biff

Uninstall biff And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove biff

Remove biff Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge biff

Remove biff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biff

Dependencies

biff have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• netbase

References

• biff website

Summary

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