How To Install dehydrated-apache2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dehydrated-apache2 on Kali Linux.

What is dehydrated-apache2

dehydrated-apache2 is:

This package provides an Apache2 config snippet to serve the http-01 challenge responses for dehydrated.

Installing this package together with dehydrated is enough to have a fully functional ACME client, including replying to the HTTP challenge.

There are three methods to install dehydrated-apache2 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 dehydrated-apache2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install dehydrated-apache2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install dehydrated-apache2

Install dehydrated-apache2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install dehydrated-apache2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install dehydrated-apache2

Install dehydrated-apache2 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 dehydrated-apache2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dehydrated-apache2

How To Uninstall dehydrated-apache2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the dehydrated-apache2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dehydrated-apache2

Uninstall dehydrated-apache2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dehydrated-apache2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dehydrated-apache2

Remove dehydrated-apache2 Configurations and Data

To remove dehydrated-apache2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dehydrated-apache2

Remove dehydrated-apache2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove dehydrated-apache2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dehydrated-apache2

Dependencies

dehydrated-apache2 have the following dependencies:

References

• dehydrated-apache2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dehydrated-apache2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.