How To Install gatling on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gatling on Kali Linux. gatling is high performance web server and file server

Introduction

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

What is gatling

gatling is:

Features: * Small (125k Linux-x86 binary with HTTP, FTP and SMB support) * Fast (measure for yourself, please) * Scalable * Uses platform-specific performance and scalability APIs * connection keep-alive * IPv6 support * transparent content negotiation * With optional directory index generation * Will only serve world readable files * Supports FTP and FTP upload as well * CGI support for HTTP, also SCGI and FastCGI (over IP sockets) * .htaccess support * Can detect some common mime types itself, like file(1) * Read-only SMB support

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gatling

Install gatling Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gatling

Install gatling 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 gatling using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gatling

How To Uninstall gatling on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gatling

Uninstall gatling And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gatling

Remove gatling Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gatling

Remove gatling configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gatling

Dependencies

gatling have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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