How To Install dh-dist-zilla on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-dist-zilla on Kali Linux.

What is dh-dist-zilla

dh-dist-zilla is:

dh-dist-zilla provides a debhelper sequence addon named ‘dist_zilla’, i.e. you can use it in your project’s debian/rules as “dh $@ –with dist-zilla”.

The intention is to be able to build Debian Perl packages directly from a Dist::Zilla based Perl distributions without generating the CPAN distribution tar-ball manually first. It is analogous to using autoreconf to generate the configure script.

The orig.tar.gz/.xz file must only contain the dist.ini and source files but not the generated files like META.yml, README, etc. If you use dh-dist-zilla, you can use “debian/rules get-orig-source” to generate a conforming upstream tar ball if none is available yet.

There are three methods to install dh-dist-zilla 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 dh-dist-zilla Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dh-dist-zilla

Install dh-dist-zilla Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install dh-dist-zilla using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install dh-dist-zilla

Install dh-dist-zilla 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 dh-dist-zilla using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dh-dist-zilla

How To Uninstall dh-dist-zilla on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the dh-dist-zilla package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dh-dist-zilla

Uninstall dh-dist-zilla And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dh-dist-zilla

Remove dh-dist-zilla Configurations and Data

To remove dh-dist-zilla configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dh-dist-zilla

Remove dh-dist-zilla configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove dh-dist-zilla configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dh-dist-zilla

Dependencies

dh-dist-zilla have the following dependencies:

• debhelper
• debhelper
• libdist-zilla-perl
• perl

References

• dh-dist-zilla website

Summary

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