How To Install health-check on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install health-check
on Kali Linux.
What is health-check
health-check is:
Health-check monitors processes and optionally their child processes and threads for a given amount of time. At the end of the monitoring it will display the CPU time used, wakeup events generated and I/O operations of the given processes. It can be used to diagnose unhealthy bad processes.
There are three methods to install health-check
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 health-check Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install health-check
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install health-check
Install health-check Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install health-check
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install health-check
Install health-check 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 health-check
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install health-check
How To Uninstall health-check on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the health-check
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove health-check
Uninstall health-check And Its Dependencies
To uninstall health-check
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove health-check
Remove health-check Configurations and Data
To remove health-check
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge health-check
Remove health-check configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove health-check
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge health-check
Dependencies
health-check have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install health-check
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.