How To Install kafkacat on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is kafkacat

kafkacat is:

kafkacat is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka 0.8, think of it as a netcat for Kafka.

In producer mode kafkacat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a configurable delimiter and produces them to the provided Kafka cluster, topic and partition. In consumer mode kafkacat reads messages from a topic and partition and prints them to stdout using the configured message delimiter.

kafkacat also features a Metadata list mode to display the current state of the Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kafkacat

Install kafkacat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kafkacat

Install kafkacat 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 kafkacat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kafkacat

How To Uninstall kafkacat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove kafkacat

Uninstall kafkacat And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kafkacat

Remove kafkacat Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kafkacat

Remove kafkacat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kafkacat

Dependencies

kafkacat have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• librdkafka1
• libyajl2

References

• kafkacat website

Summary

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