How To Install boinc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc on Kali Linux. boinc is metapackage for the BOINC client and the manager

Introduction

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

What is boinc

boinc is:

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of desktop computers. The developers’ web site at the University of Berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run projects.

This package depends both on the BOINC core client program that is required to participate in any project that uses BOINC, and the BOINC Manager, a graphical monitor and control utility for the BOINC core client.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install boinc

Install boinc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install boinc

Install boinc 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 boinc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install boinc

How To Uninstall boinc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove boinc

Uninstall boinc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove boinc

Remove boinc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge boinc

Remove boinc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boinc

Dependencies

boinc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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