How To Install bless on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install bless on Kali Linux. bless is A full featured hexadecimal editor

Introduction

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

What is bless

bless is:

Bless is a binary (hex) editor, a program that enables you to edit files as a sequence of bytes written for the GNOME Desktop. Main features are:

  • Efficient editing of large data files.
  • Multilevel undo - redo operations.
  • Customizable data views.
  • Fast data rendering on screen.
  • Multiple Tabs.
  • Fast Find and Replace operations.
  • Conversion Table.
  • Advanced Copy/Paste capabilities.
  • Multi-threaded search and save operations.
  • Export to text and html (others with plugins).
  • Extensibility with Plugins.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bless

Install bless Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bless

Install bless 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 bless using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bless

How To Uninstall bless on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bless

Uninstall bless And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bless

Remove bless Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bless

Remove bless configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bless

Dependencies

bless have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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