How To Install equivs on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is equivs

equivs is:

This package provides a tool to create trivial Debian packages. Typically these packages contain only dependency information, but they can also include normal installed files like other packages do.

One use for this is to create a metapackage: a package whose sole purpose is to declare dependencies and conflicts on other packages so that these will be automatically installed, upgraded, or removed.

Another use is to circumvent dependency checking: by letting dpkg think a particular package name and version is installed when it isn’t, you can work around bugs in other packages’ dependencies. (Please do still file such bugs, though.)

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install equivs

Install equivs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install equivs

Install equivs 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 equivs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install equivs

How To Uninstall equivs on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove equivs

Uninstall equivs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove equivs

Remove equivs Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge equivs

Remove equivs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge equivs

Dependencies

equivs have the following dependencies:

• debhelper
• dpkg-dev
• make
• perl

References

• equivs website

Summary

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