How To Install gpw on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is gpw

gpw is:

This package generates pronounceable passwords. It uses the statistics of three-letter combinations (trigraphs) taken from whatever dictionaries you feed it.

Thus pronounceability may differ from language to language. Based on the ideas in Morrie Gasser’s password generator for Multics, and Dan Edwards’s generator for CTSS. FIPS Standard 181 describes a similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser’s.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpw

Install gpw Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gpw

Install gpw 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 gpw using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gpw

How To Uninstall gpw on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove gpw

Uninstall gpw And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpw

Remove gpw Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gpw

Remove gpw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpw

Dependencies

gpw have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• gpw website

Summary

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