How To Install cricket on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cricket on Kali Linux.
What is cricket
cricket is:
This is Cricket. It is a configuration, polling, and data-display engine wrapped around the RRD tool by Tobias Oetiker. There are three user-visible pieces to Cricket: the collector, the grapher, and the config tree. The collector runs from cron and fetches data from a number of devices according to the info it finds in the config tree. The grapher is a CGI application that allows users to traverse the config tree from a web browser and see the data that the collector recorded.
There are three methods to install cricket 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 cricket Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cricket using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cricketInstall cricket Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cricket using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cricketInstall cricket 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 cricket using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cricketHow To Uninstall cricket on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cricket package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cricketUninstall cricket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cricket and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cricketRemove cricket Configurations and Data
To remove cricket configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cricketRemove cricket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cricket configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cricketDependencies
cricket have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cricket package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.