How To Install bossa on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is bossa

bossa is:

BOSSA is a flash programming utility for Atmel’s SAM family of flash-based ARM microcontrollers. The motivation behind BOSSA is to create a simple, easy-to- use, open source utility to replace Atmel’s SAM-BA software.

This package contains the wxWidgets GUI interface to bossa.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bossa

Install bossa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bossa

Install bossa 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 bossa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bossa

How To Uninstall bossa on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bossa

Uninstall bossa And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bossa

Remove bossa Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bossa

Remove bossa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bossa

Dependencies

bossa have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• bossa website

Summary

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