How To Install doodle on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is doodle

doodle is:

It searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on meta-data. It extracts file-format specific meta-data using libextractor and builds a suffix tree to index the files. The index can then be searched rapidly. It is similar to locate, but can take advantage of information such as ID3 tags. It is possible to do full-text indexing using the appropriate libextractor plugins. It also supports using FAM to keep the database up-to-date.

You can use doodled (separate package) to keep the doodle database automagically updated.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install doodle

Install doodle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install doodle

Install doodle 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 doodle using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install doodle

How To Uninstall doodle on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove doodle

Uninstall doodle And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doodle

Remove doodle Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge doodle

Remove doodle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doodle

Dependencies

doodle have the following dependencies:

• adduser
• libc6
• libdoodle1
• libextractor3

References

• doodle website

Summary

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