How To Install iselect on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is iselect

iselect is:

iSelect is an interactive line selection tool, operating via a full-screen Curses-based terminal session. It can be used either as an user interface frontend controlled by a Bourne-Shell/Perl/Tcl backend as its control script or in batch mode as a pipeline filter (usually between grep and the final executing command).

This package also includes screen-ir, a script to interactively reattach to one of several screen sessions.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install iselect

Install iselect Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install iselect

Install iselect 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 iselect using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iselect

How To Uninstall iselect on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove iselect

Uninstall iselect And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iselect

Remove iselect Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge iselect

Remove iselect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iselect

Dependencies

iselect have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libncurses6
• libtinfo6

References

• iselect website

Summary

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