How To Install gridsite-clients on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-clients on Kali Linux.
What is gridsite-clients
gridsite-clients is:
GridSite was originally a web application developed for managing and formatting the content of the http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/ website. Over the past years it has grown into a set of extensions to the Apache web server and a toolkit for Grid credentials, GACL access control lists and HTTP(S) protocol operations.
This package, gridsite-clients, contains clients for using against gridsite, htcp, htrm, …
There are three methods to install gridsite-clients 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 gridsite-clients Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gridsite-clients using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gridsite-clientsInstall gridsite-clients Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gridsite-clients using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gridsite-clientsInstall gridsite-clients 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gridsite-clients using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gridsite-clientsHow To Uninstall gridsite-clients on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gridsite-clients package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gridsite-clientsUninstall gridsite-clients And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gridsite-clients and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gridsite-clientsRemove gridsite-clients Configurations and Data
To remove gridsite-clients configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gridsite-clientsRemove gridsite-clients configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gridsite-clients configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gridsite-clientsDependencies
gridsite-clients have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-clients package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
