How To Install deluged on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is deluged

deluged is:

Deluge is a full-featured, multi-platform, multi-interface BitTorrent client using libtorrent-rasterbar in it’s backend and featuring multiple user-interfaces: GTK+, web and console.

It has been designed using the client-server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity. The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform.

You may want to install this package to run the daemon application on a remote server and connect to it from any user-interface. See: URL:http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/UserGuide/ThinClient

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install deluged

Install deluged Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install deluged

Install deluged 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 deluged using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install deluged

How To Uninstall deluged on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove deluged

Uninstall deluged And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove deluged

Remove deluged Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge deluged

Remove deluged configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge deluged

Dependencies

deluged have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• deluged website

Summary

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