How To Install bing on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is bing

bing is:

Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the ‘b’), based on ping.

Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests’ round trip times for different packet sizes at each end of the link.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bing

Install bing Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bing

Install bing 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 bing using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bing

How To Uninstall bing on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bing

Uninstall bing And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bing

Remove bing Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bing

Remove bing configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bing

Dependencies

bing have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• bing website

Summary

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