How To Install gearman-server on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is gearman-server

gearman-server 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 even to call functions between languages.

This package contains both the Gearman server as well as the corresponding Perl bindings.

There are three methods to install gearman-server 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-server 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-server using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gearman-server

Install gearman-server Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gearman-server

Install gearman-server 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-server using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gearman-server

How To Uninstall gearman-server on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gearman-server

Uninstall gearman-server And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gearman-server

Remove gearman-server Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gearman-server

Remove gearman-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gearman-server

Dependencies

gearman-server have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libgearman-client-perl
• libdanga-socket-perl

References

• gearman-server website

Summary

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