How To Install lintian-brush on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lintian-brush on Kali Linux. lintian-brush is automatically fix lintian problems

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lintian-brush on Kali Linux.

What is lintian-brush

lintian-brush is:

This package contains a set of scripts that can automatically fix more than 140 common lintian issues in Debian packages.

It comes with a wrapper script that invokes the scripts, updates the changelog (if desired) and commits each change to version control.

There are three methods to install lintian-brush 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 lintian-brush Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lintian-brush

Install lintian-brush Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lintian-brush

Install lintian-brush 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 lintian-brush using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lintian-brush

How To Uninstall lintian-brush on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lintian-brush package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lintian-brush

Uninstall lintian-brush And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lintian-brush

Remove lintian-brush Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lintian-brush

Remove lintian-brush configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lintian-brush

Dependencies

lintian-brush have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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