How To Install htdig on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install htdig on Kali Linux. htdig is web search and indexing system - binaries

Introduction

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

What is htdig

htdig is:

The ht://Dig system is a complete web search engine for a small domain or intranet. It is not meant to replace the major Internet-wide search engines; instead it is meant to cover the search needs of a single company, campus, or even a particular subsection of a website.

Features:

  • intranet searching, spanning multiple local web servers;
  • robot exclusion;
  • boolean expression searches;
  • configurable search results;
  • fuzzy searching (various algorithms supported);
  • indexing of HTML and text files;
  • keyword tagging of HTML documents;
  • email notification of expired documents;
  • indexing of protected servers;
  • searches on subsections of the database;
  • limitation of search depth;
  • ISO-Latin-1 character set support.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install htdig

Install htdig Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install htdig

Install htdig 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 htdig using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install htdig

How To Uninstall htdig on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove htdig

Uninstall htdig And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove htdig

Remove htdig Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge htdig

Remove htdig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge htdig

Dependencies

htdig have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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