How To Install icingaweb2 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install icingaweb2 on Kali Linux. icingaweb2 is simple and responsive web interface for Icinga

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icingaweb2 on Kali Linux.

What is icingaweb2

icingaweb2 is:

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

The software will give you a web frontend for your monitoring solution, and can run additional modules, extending monitoring data, or even supplying something new to the webinterface.

This package installs the web interface with all needed dependencies.

There are three methods to install icingaweb2 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 icingaweb2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install icingaweb2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install icingaweb2

Install icingaweb2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install icingaweb2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install icingaweb2

Install icingaweb2 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 icingaweb2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icingaweb2

How To Uninstall icingaweb2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the icingaweb2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icingaweb2

Uninstall icingaweb2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icingaweb2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icingaweb2

Remove icingaweb2 Configurations and Data

To remove icingaweb2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icingaweb2

Remove icingaweb2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove icingaweb2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icingaweb2

Dependencies

icingaweb2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icingaweb2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.