How To Install fair on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fair

fair is:

Fair is a system for implementing load balancers; it consists of two daemons: carrousel and transponder. Carrousel, which performs load balancing services, typically runs on a load balancer; transponder runs on the servers.

Fair understands network topologies where one node is reachable via more than one IP address; this allows not only the servers, but the network to be redundant as well. This distinguishes fair from other load balancers.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fair

Install fair Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fair

Install fair 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 fair using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fair

How To Uninstall fair on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fair

Uninstall fair And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fair

Remove fair Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fair

Remove fair configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fair

Dependencies

fair have the following dependencies:

• libavl1
• libc6

References

• fair website

Summary

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