How To Install francine on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is francine

francine is:

francine is an easy to configure themeable console login program. Its great configurability for per tty access-settings and the posibility to put the prompt for username and password anywhere within a nicely colored ANSI-screen makes it a greatly enhanced replacement for the old clumpy login.

You need a getty that is able to run different programs than just login. It is suggested to use rungetty for that, but (alternative) getty does suffice. It can also be used from the telnetd with the -L option.

This project is a spin-off from the fancylogin project, which is still maintained by Richard Bergmair.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install francine

Install francine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install francine

Install francine 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 francine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install francine

How To Uninstall francine on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove francine

Uninstall francine And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove francine

Remove francine Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge francine

Remove francine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge francine

Dependencies

francine have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcrypt1

References

• francine website

Summary

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