How To Install lcmaps-plugins-voms on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lcmaps-plugins-voms on Kali Linux.

What is lcmaps-plugins-voms

lcmaps-plugins-voms is:

The Local Centre MAPping Service (LCMAPS) is a security middleware component that processes the users Grid credentials (typically X.509 proxy certificates and VOMS attributes) and maps the user to a local account based on the site local policy.

This package contains the VOMS plugins.

There are three methods to install lcmaps-plugins-voms 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 lcmaps-plugins-voms Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lcmaps-plugins-voms

Install lcmaps-plugins-voms Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install lcmaps-plugins-voms using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install lcmaps-plugins-voms

Install lcmaps-plugins-voms 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 lcmaps-plugins-voms using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lcmaps-plugins-voms

How To Uninstall lcmaps-plugins-voms on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lcmaps-plugins-voms package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lcmaps-plugins-voms

Uninstall lcmaps-plugins-voms And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lcmaps-plugins-voms

Remove lcmaps-plugins-voms Configurations and Data

To remove lcmaps-plugins-voms configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lcmaps-plugins-voms

Remove lcmaps-plugins-voms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove lcmaps-plugins-voms configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lcmaps-plugins-voms

Dependencies

lcmaps-plugins-voms have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• liblcmaps0

References

• lcmaps-plugins-voms website

Summary

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