How To Install chake on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is chake

chake is:

chake allows one to manage a number of hosts via SSH by combining chef (solo) and rake. It doesn’t require a chef server; all you need is a workstation from where you can SSH into all your hosts. chake automates copying the configuration management repository to the target host (including managing encrypted files), running chef on them, and running arbitrary commands on the hosts.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install chake

Install chake Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install chake

Install chake 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 chake using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chake

How To Uninstall chake on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove chake

Uninstall chake And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chake

Remove chake Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge chake

Remove chake configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chake

Dependencies

chake have the following dependencies:

• ruby
• rake

References

• chake website

Summary

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