How To Install mediawiki-classes on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mediawiki-classes on Kali Linux.

What is mediawiki-classes

mediawiki-classes is:

This package provides standalone classes from the remainder of the MediaWiki codebase. They do not call on any other portions of MediaWiki code, and can be used in portions of MediaWiki code, and can be used in other projects without dependency issues.

MediaWiki is a wiki engine (a program for creating a collaboratively edited website). It is designed to handle heavy websites containing library-like document collections, and supports user uploads of images/sounds, multilingual content, TOC autogeneration, ISBN links, etc.

Moreover, it keeps track of changes, so users can receive notifications, view diffs and revert edits. This system has many other features and can easily be extended.

There are three methods to install mediawiki-classes 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 mediawiki-classes Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mediawiki-classes

Install mediawiki-classes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mediawiki-classes

Install mediawiki-classes 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 mediawiki-classes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mediawiki-classes

How To Uninstall mediawiki-classes on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mediawiki-classes package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mediawiki-classes

Uninstall mediawiki-classes And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mediawiki-classes

Remove mediawiki-classes Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mediawiki-classes

Remove mediawiki-classes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mediawiki-classes

Dependencies

mediawiki-classes have the following dependencies:

References

• mediawiki-classes website

Summary

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