How To Install linkchecker-web on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is linkchecker-web

linkchecker-web is:

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

  • recursive checking
  • multithreaded
  • HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support
  • proxy support
  • username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet
  • robots.txt exclusion protocol support
  • i18n support

There are three methods to install linkchecker-web 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-web 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-web using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install linkchecker-web

Install linkchecker-web Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install linkchecker-web

Install linkchecker-web 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-web using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install linkchecker-web

How To Uninstall linkchecker-web on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove linkchecker-web

Uninstall linkchecker-web And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove linkchecker-web

Remove linkchecker-web Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge linkchecker-web

Remove linkchecker-web configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linkchecker-web

Dependencies

linkchecker-web have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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