How To Install cacti on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti
on Kali Linux.
What is cacti
cacti is:
Cacti is a complete PHP-driven front-end for RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary data source information to create graphs, handles the data gathering, and populates the MySQL database with round-robin archives. It also includes SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.
This package requires a functional MySQL database server on either the installation host or a remotely accessible system.
There are three methods to install cacti
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 cacti Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install cacti
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install cacti Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install cacti
using apt
by running the following command:
Install cacti 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.
After updating apt database, We can install cacti
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall cacti on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cacti
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall cacti And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cacti
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove cacti Configurations and Data
To remove cacti
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove cacti configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cacti
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
cacti have the following dependencies:
- dbconfig-common
- dbconfig-mysql
- fonts-dejavu-core
- fonts-dejavu-extra
- fonts-fork-awesome
- javascript-common
- libapache2-mod-php
- libjs-c3
- libjs-chart.js
- libjs-d3
- libjs-jquery
- libjs-jquery-cookie
- libjs-jquery-hotkeys
- libjs-jquery-metadata
- libjs-jquery-tablesorter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.