How To Install gitinspector on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is gitinspector

gitinspector is:

gitinspector is a statistical analysis tool for git repositories. It creates informative and visually appealling reports in various output formats.

Its features include:

• Shows cumulative work by each author in the history
• Filters results by extension
• Can display a statistical timeline analysis
• Scans for all filetypes (by extension) found in the repository
• Multi-threaded; uses multiple instances of git to speed up analysis
• Supports HTML, XML and plain text (terminal) output

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gitinspector

Install gitinspector Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gitinspector

Install gitinspector 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 gitinspector using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gitinspector

How To Uninstall gitinspector on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gitinspector

Uninstall gitinspector And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gitinspector

Remove gitinspector Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gitinspector

Remove gitinspector configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gitinspector

Dependencies

gitinspector have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• gitinspector website

Summary

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