How To Install circle-backend on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install circle-backend on Kali Linux.
What is circle-backend
circle-backend is:
Circle is an IRC client which merges the best attributes of a local client and the common screen+irssi recipe:
- Keep IRC connects and state on a backend server, allowing disconnections from local UI.
- Interact with a real local GUI for the frontend, instead of incurring SSH roundtrips for every keypress.
Circle uses Tangence for its underlying communications layer.
This package is meant to be used together with a package providing a user-facing frontend, e.g. circle-term or circle-gtk.
There are three methods to install circle-backend 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 circle-backend Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install circle-backend using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install circle-backendInstall circle-backend Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install circle-backend using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install circle-backendInstall circle-backend 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install circle-backend using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install circle-backendHow To Uninstall circle-backend on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the circle-backend package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove circle-backendUninstall circle-backend And Its Dependencies
To uninstall circle-backend and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove circle-backendRemove circle-backend Configurations and Data
To remove circle-backend configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge circle-backendRemove circle-backend configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove circle-backend configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circle-backendDependencies
circle-backend have the following dependencies:
- perl
- libattribute-storage-perl
- libclass-method-modifiers-perl
- libdata-dump-perl
- libfile-sharedir-perl
- libio-async-perl
- libmodule-pluggable-perl
- libnet-async-irc-perl
- libnet-async-tangence-perl
- libstring-tagged-perl
- libstruct-dumb-perl
- libtangence-perl
- libyaml-perl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install circle-backend package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
