How To Install deps-tools-cli on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install deps-tools-cli on Kali Linux.

What is deps-tools-cli

deps-tools-cli is:

Currently only contains the limited “graph-includes” tool.

Graph-includes creates a graph of dependencies between source-files and/or groups of source-files, with an emphasis on getting readable and usable graphs even for large projects.

Usability of the dependency graphs are currently improved by:

• customizable grouping of several source files into a single node
• transitive reduction of the graph

It currently supports graphing the C/C++ #include relationship, using graphviz by default.

There are three methods to install deps-tools-cli 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 deps-tools-cli Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install deps-tools-cli

Install deps-tools-cli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install deps-tools-cli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install deps-tools-cli

Install deps-tools-cli 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 deps-tools-cli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install deps-tools-cli

How To Uninstall deps-tools-cli on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the deps-tools-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove deps-tools-cli

Uninstall deps-tools-cli And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove deps-tools-cli

Remove deps-tools-cli Configurations and Data

To remove deps-tools-cli configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge deps-tools-cli

Remove deps-tools-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove deps-tools-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge deps-tools-cli

Dependencies

deps-tools-cli have the following dependencies:

• libdeps-perl
• libdeps-renderer-dot-perl
• perl

References

• deps-tools-cli website

Summary

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