How To Install cereal on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is cereal

cereal is:

cereal provides a framework to easily set up and maintain automated, timestamped logs of serial lines, while simultaneously allowing end user access to them. This is probably most useful for providing automated, logged access to remote serial consoles.

cereal can control an arbitrary number of independently monitored and logged lines. Direct access to the monitored lines is allowed only to a specific user (who doesn’t necessarily otherwise have access to the direct serial line), but logs can be made available to any group. Logs are rotated automatically and their total space can be limited in size.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cereal

Install cereal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cereal

Install cereal 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 cereal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cereal

How To Uninstall cereal on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove cereal

Uninstall cereal And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cereal

Remove cereal Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cereal

Remove cereal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cereal

Dependencies

cereal have the following dependencies:

• runit
• screen
• adduser
• procmail

References

• cereal website

Summary

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