How To Install duck on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is duck

duck is:

duck, the Debian Url ChecKer, processes several fields in the debian/control, debian/upstream, debian/copyright, debian/patches/* and systemd.unit files and checks if URLs, VCS links and email address domains found therein are valid.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install duck

Install duck Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install duck

Install duck 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 duck using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install duck

How To Uninstall duck on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove duck

Uninstall duck And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove duck

Remove duck Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge duck

Remove duck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge duck

Dependencies

duck have the following dependencies:

• devscripts
• dpkg-dev
• libconfig-inifiles-perl
• libconfig-simple-perl
• libdomain-publicsuffix-perl
• libfile-which-perl
• libmailtools-perl
• libnet-dns-perl
• libparallel-forkmanager-perl
• libparse-debcontrol-perl
• libpath-class-perl
• libregexp-common-email-address-perl
• libregexp-common-perl
• libstring-similarity-perl
• libwww-curl-perl
• libxml-xpath-perl
• libyaml-libyaml-perl
• lynx
• publicsuffix
• perl

References

• duck website

Summary

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