How To Install flit on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is flit

flit is:

Flit is a easy way to put Python packages and modules on PyPI. It tries to require less thought about packaging and help you avoid common mistakes.

Flit supports PEP 517 Python packaging.

Make the easy things easy and the hard things possible is an old motto from the Perl community. Flit is entirely focused on the easy things part of that, and leaves the hard things up to other tools.

Specifically, the easy things are pure Python packages with no build steps (neither compiling C code, nor bundling Javascript, etc.). The vast majority of packages on PyPI are like this: plain Python code, with maybe some static data files like icons included.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install flit

Install flit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install flit

Install flit 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 flit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install flit

How To Uninstall flit on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove flit

Uninstall flit And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove flit

Remove flit Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge flit

Remove flit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flit

Dependencies

flit have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• flit website

Summary

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