How To Install clitest on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is clitest

clitest is:

Clitest is a portable POSIX shell script that performs automatic testing in Unix command lines. This script was carefully coded to be portable between POSIX shells.

It’s the same concept as in Python’s doctest module: you document both the commands and their expected output, using the familiar interactive prompt format, and a specialized tool tests them.

The clitest command searches for pieces of text that look like interactive Unix command lines, and then executes those command lines to verify that they work exactly as shown.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install clitest

Install clitest Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install clitest

Install clitest 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 clitest using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clitest

How To Uninstall clitest on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove clitest

Uninstall clitest And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clitest

Remove clitest Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge clitest

Remove clitest configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clitest

Dependencies

clitest have the following dependencies:

References

• clitest website

Summary

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