How To Install hearse on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is hearse

hearse is:

Nethack sometimes saves the level on which you die (including your stuff, what killed you, and your ghost) in a “bones file”. These files get loaded into later Nethack games. If you’re the only Nethack player on your system you’ll only get bones files you created yourself.

With Hearse, you can automatically exchange bones files with other Nethack players. When run it uploads any new bones files it finds on your system, then downloads any bones files the server feels like giving it. See http://www.argon.org/~roderick/hearse/ for more information.

An important thing to note is that by default using Hearse will cause you to end up with more bones than you otherwise would have. This changes the game’s balance and is considered by many players to be a mild form of cheating. You can address this by turning on the –delete-uploaded option, but the down side is you’ll never encounter your own bones files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hearse

Install hearse Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hearse

Install hearse 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 hearse using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hearse

How To Uninstall hearse on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove hearse

Uninstall hearse And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hearse

Remove hearse Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge hearse

Remove hearse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hearse

Dependencies

hearse have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• perl
• libwww-perl
• nethack-common

References

• hearse website

Summary

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