How To Install cronic on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is cronic

cronic is:

Cronic is a small shim shell script for wrapping cron jobs so that cron only sends email when an error has occurred. Cronic defines an error as any non-trace error output or a non-zero result code.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cronic

Install cronic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cronic

Install cronic 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 cronic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cronic

How To Uninstall cronic on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove cronic

Uninstall cronic And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cronic

Remove cronic Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cronic

Remove cronic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cronic

Dependencies

cronic have the following dependencies:

• bash

References

• cronic website

Summary

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