How To Install hapolicy on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is hapolicy

hapolicy is:

Hapolicy enables high availability, weighted loadbalancing and a fallback action for postfix policy delegation services. Invoked via postfix spawn it acts as a wrapper that queries other policy servers via tcp connection. The order of the service queries can be influenced by assigning a specific priority and weight to each service.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hapolicy

Install hapolicy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hapolicy

Install hapolicy 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 hapolicy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hapolicy

How To Uninstall hapolicy on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove hapolicy

Uninstall hapolicy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hapolicy

Remove hapolicy Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge hapolicy

Remove hapolicy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hapolicy

Dependencies

hapolicy have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• hapolicy website

Summary

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