How To Install icingacli on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is icingacli

icingacli is:

Icinga Web 2 is a very modular, fast and simple web interface for your Icinga monitoring environment.

icingacli is a command line utility, allowing the admin to configure Icinga Web 2 and provides the possibility to query Icinga data from your shell. All modules of Icingaweb2 can add additional commands to the icingacli.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install icingacli

Install icingacli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install icingacli

Install icingacli 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 icingacli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icingacli

How To Uninstall icingacli on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove icingacli

Uninstall icingacli And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icingacli

Remove icingacli Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge icingacli

Remove icingacli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icingacli

Dependencies

icingacli have the following dependencies:

• adduser
• php-icinga

References

• icingacli website

Summary

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