How To Install bottlerocket on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bottlerocket on Kali Linux.
What is bottlerocket
A command-line utility to interact with the Firecracker version of X10’s home control devices (wireless home automation to control lights, cameras, appliances via a small transmitter that plugs into the standard RS-232 serial port of a computer).
Also included is rocket launcher, a graphical frontend to bottlerocket. If you want this functionality you should have wish (tk8.3 or tk8.4 - the Tcl/Tk interpreter) installed.
There are three ways to install bottlerocket 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 bottlerocket Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bottlerocket using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bottlerocket
Install bottlerocket Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bottlerocket using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bottlerocket
Install bottlerocket Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude 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 bottlerocket using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bottlerocket
How To Uninstall bottlerocket on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bottlerocket package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bottlerocket
Uninstall bottlerocket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bottlerocket and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bottlerocket
Remove bottlerocket Configurations and Data
To remove bottlerocket configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bottlerocket
Remove bottlerocket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bottlerocket configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bottlerocket
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bottlerocket using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.