How To Install eekboek-gui on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eekboek-gui on Kali Linux.

What is eekboek-gui

eekboek-gui is:

This package includes ebwxshell, the EekBoek GUI. It offers an EekBoek browser, useful for viewing the administrative data. It’s especially useful for generating, printing and pinpointing reports. Furthermore, it offers a raw interface to the EekBoek Shell. Finally, it offers a Wizard to help configuring new bookkeeping administrations.

Install it if you need a friendly interface to the EekBoek reporting facilities, or if you would like help in configuring EekBoek. However, if you prefer working in pure text mode, or don’t like to install the WX graphical packages, you should not install this package.

There are three methods to install eekboek-gui 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 eekboek-gui Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install eekboek-gui

Install eekboek-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install eekboek-gui

Install eekboek-gui 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 eekboek-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install eekboek-gui

How To Uninstall eekboek-gui on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the eekboek-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove eekboek-gui

Uninstall eekboek-gui And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove eekboek-gui

Remove eekboek-gui Configurations and Data

To remove eekboek-gui configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge eekboek-gui

Remove eekboek-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eekboek-gui

Dependencies

eekboek-gui have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• eekboek-gui website

Summary

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