How To Install linkchecker on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install linkchecker on Kali Linux. linkchecker is check websites and HTML documents for broken links

Introduction

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

What is linkchecker

linkchecker is:

Provides a command line program and web interface to check links of websites and HTML documents. Features:

  • recursive checking
  • multithreaded
  • output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats
  • HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support
  • restrict link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
  • proxy support
  • username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet
  • robots.txt exclusion protocol support
  • Cookie support
  • i18n support
  • HTML and CSS syntax check
  • Antivirus check

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install linkchecker

Install linkchecker Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install linkchecker

Install linkchecker 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 linkchecker using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install linkchecker

How To Uninstall linkchecker on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove linkchecker

Uninstall linkchecker And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove linkchecker

Remove linkchecker Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge linkchecker

Remove linkchecker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linkchecker

Dependencies

linkchecker have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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