How To Install freetable on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is freetable

freetable is:

Freetable is a perl script that aims to make the production of HTML tables a little easier. This script works as a filter, reading stdin and writing to stdout.

The input syntax is as roughly follows:

   <wwwtable table-options...>
     initial text (e.g. <caption> ... </caption>).
     (X, Y) options for cell (X, Y)
     text for cell (X,Y)...
     ((X,Y)) options for header cell X,Y
     text for header cell (X,Y)...
   </wwwtable>

Rows and cells may be specified in any order, numbering starts at 1. X and/or Y may be replaced by regular expression, explicit range or even arbitrary Perl code to indicate rows or columns. Options or text (or both) may be omitted for cells. Cells may be omitted completely if they are empty or fall under the rowspan/colspan specifications of another cell. Cells may contain arbitrary HTML text, including other freetable tables.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install freetable

Install freetable Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install freetable

Install freetable 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 freetable using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install freetable

How To Uninstall freetable on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove freetable

Uninstall freetable And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freetable

Remove freetable Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge freetable

Remove freetable configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freetable

Dependencies

freetable have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• freetable website

Summary

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