How To Install boinc-virtualbox on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-virtualbox on Kali Linux.
What is boinc-virtualbox
boinc-virtualbox 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.
Regular users (righteously) often find it an unbearable nuisance to care for the exact configuration of BOINC for virtualbox-based projects. This package adds a series of dependencies from the contrib section to the regular boinc package. This also meant this binary package to be redistributed in the contrib section of Debian.
There are three methods to install boinc-virtualbox 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-virtualbox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install boinc-virtualbox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install boinc-virtualboxInstall boinc-virtualbox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install boinc-virtualbox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install boinc-virtualboxInstall boinc-virtualbox 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install boinc-virtualbox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install boinc-virtualboxHow To Uninstall boinc-virtualbox on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the boinc-virtualbox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove boinc-virtualboxUninstall boinc-virtualbox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall boinc-virtualbox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove boinc-virtualboxRemove boinc-virtualbox Configurations and Data
To remove boinc-virtualbox configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge boinc-virtualboxRemove boinc-virtualbox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove boinc-virtualbox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boinc-virtualboxDependencies
boinc-virtualbox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-virtualbox package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.