How To Install gnuais on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuais
on Kali Linux.
What is gnuais
gnuais is:
A tool for demodulating and decoding Automatic Identification System messages using the line input of the sound card. AIS messages are transmitted by marine vessels and contain their position, velocity and other interesting information. The messages may be saved to a mysql-database, forwarded as NMEA packets or uploaded to an AIS web service.
There are three methods to install gnuais
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 gnuais Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuais
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnuais
Install gnuais Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnuais
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnuais
Install gnuais 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 gnuais
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnuais
How To Uninstall gnuais on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gnuais
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnuais
Uninstall gnuais And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnuais
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnuais
Remove gnuais Configurations and Data
To remove gnuais
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnuais
Remove gnuais configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnuais
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnuais
Dependencies
gnuais have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnuais
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.