How To Install git-secrets on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-secrets
on Kali Linux.
What is git-secrets
git-secrets is:
git-secrets scans commits, commit messages, and –no-ff merges to prevent adding secrets into your git repositories. If a commit, commit message, or any commit in a –no-ff merge history matches one of your configured prohibited regular expression patterns, then the commit is rejected.
There are three methods to install git-secrets
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 git-secrets Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install git-secrets
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install git-secrets
Install git-secrets Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install git-secrets
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install git-secrets
Install git-secrets 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 git-secrets
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install git-secrets
How To Uninstall git-secrets on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the git-secrets
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove git-secrets
Uninstall git-secrets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall git-secrets
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove git-secrets
Remove git-secrets Configurations and Data
To remove git-secrets
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge git-secrets
Remove git-secrets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove git-secrets
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge git-secrets
Dependencies
git-secrets have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-secrets
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.