How To Install members on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is members

members is:

members is the complement of groups: whereas groups shows the groups a specified user belongs to, members shows users belonging to a specified group.

Given the name of a group, members will send a space-separated list of member names to stdout.

Full option parsing has been added as of this version. You can ask for primary members, secondary members, both on one line, each on separate lines. If no option is selected, prints all members on one line by default.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install members

Install members Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install members

Install members 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 members using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install members

How To Uninstall members on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove members

Uninstall members And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove members

Remove members Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge members

Remove members configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge members

Dependencies

members have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libstdc++6

References

• members website

Summary

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