How To Install mcollective on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is mcollective

mcollective is:

The Marionette Collective is a framework for building server orchestration and parallel job execution systems.

This package contains the MCollective daemon.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mcollective

Install mcollective Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mcollective

Install mcollective 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 mcollective using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mcollective

How To Uninstall mcollective on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mcollective

Uninstall mcollective And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mcollective

Remove mcollective Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mcollective

Remove mcollective configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mcollective

Dependencies

mcollective have the following dependencies:

• mcollective-common
• ruby

References

• mcollective website

Summary

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