How To Install gearman on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is gearman

gearman is:

Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.

This package is an empty package that depends on both the client and the server.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gearman

Install gearman Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gearman

Install gearman 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 gearman using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gearman

How To Uninstall gearman on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gearman

Uninstall gearman And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gearman

Remove gearman Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gearman

Remove gearman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gearman

Dependencies

gearman have the following dependencies:

• gearman-job-server
• gearman-tools

References

• gearman website

Summary

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