How To Install bsh on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is bsh

bsh is:

BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java. BeanShell executes standard Java statements and expressions, in addition to obvious scripting commands and syntax. BeanShell supports scripted objects as simple method closures like those in Perl and JavaScript(tm).

You can use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and debugging or as a simple scripting engine for you applications. In short: BeanShell is a dynamically interpreted Java, plus some useful stuff.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bsh

Install bsh Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bsh

Install bsh 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 bsh using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bsh

How To Uninstall bsh on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bsh

Uninstall bsh And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bsh

Remove bsh Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge bsh

Remove bsh configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bsh

Dependencies

bsh have the following dependencies:

• default-jre-headless
• libbsh-java
• libjline-java

References

• bsh website

Summary

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