How To Install licensecheck on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is licensecheck

licensecheck is:

Licensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text belonging to various licenses.

Support for bash tab-completion requires the package bash-completion.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install licensecheck

Install licensecheck Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install licensecheck

Install licensecheck 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 licensecheck using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install licensecheck

How To Uninstall licensecheck on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove licensecheck

Uninstall licensecheck And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove licensecheck

Remove licensecheck Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge licensecheck

Remove licensecheck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge licensecheck

Dependencies

licensecheck have the following dependencies:

• libarray-intspan-perl
• libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl
• liblist-someutils-perl
• liblog-any-perl
• liblog-any-adapter-screen-perl
• libmoo-perl
• libmoox-struct-perl
• libnamespace-clean-perl
• libpath-iterator-rule-perl
• libpath-tiny-perl
• libpod-constants-perl
• libre-engine-re2-perl
• libregexp-pattern-license-perl
• libregexp-pattern-perl
• libscalar-list-utils-perl

References

• licensecheck website

Summary

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