How To Install checkinstall on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is checkinstall

checkinstall is:

CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script (“make install” “make install_modules”, “setup”, etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution’s standard package management utilities.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install checkinstall

Install checkinstall Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install checkinstall

Install checkinstall 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 checkinstall using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install checkinstall

How To Uninstall checkinstall on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove checkinstall

Uninstall checkinstall And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove checkinstall

Remove checkinstall Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge checkinstall

Remove checkinstall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge checkinstall

Dependencies

checkinstall have the following dependencies:

• dpkg-dev
• file
• sensible-utils
• libc6

References

• checkinstall website

Summary

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