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:

• libbsd0
• libc6
• libjson-c5

References

• health-check website

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.