How To Install ikiwiki on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki on Kali Linux.
What is ikiwiki
ikiwiki is:
Ikiwiki converts a directory full of wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike many wikis, ikiwiki does not have its own ad-hoc means of storing page history, and instead uses a revision control system such as Subversion or Git.
Ikiwiki implements all of the other standard features of a wiki, including web-based page editing, user registration and logins, a RecentChanges page, BackLinks, search, Discussion pages, tags, smart merging and conflict resolution, and page locking.
Ikiwiki also supports generating news feeds (RSS and Atom) and blogging. Ikiwiki provides a plugin system which allows many other features to be added. Some of the plugins have additional dependencies, found among the Recommends and Suggests of this package.
There are three methods to install ikiwiki 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 ikiwiki Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ikiwikiInstall ikiwiki Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ikiwikiInstall ikiwiki 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ikiwikiHow To Uninstall ikiwiki on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ikiwiki package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ikiwikiUninstall ikiwiki And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ikiwiki and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ikiwikiRemove ikiwiki Configurations and Data
To remove ikiwiki configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ikiwikiRemove ikiwiki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ikiwiki configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ikiwikiDependencies
ikiwiki have the following dependencies:
- libhtml-parser-perl
- libhtml-scrubber-perl
- libhtml-template-perl
- libjson-perl
- libmarkdown2
- libtext-markdown-discount-perl
- liburi-perl
- libyaml-libyaml-perl
- perl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.