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 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 ways 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.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cacti using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cacti
Install cacti Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cacti using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cacti
Install cacti 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 cacti using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cacti
How To Uninstall cacti on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cacti package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cacti
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:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cacti
Remove cacti Configurations and Data
To remove cacti configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cacti
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:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cacti
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.