How To Install miscfiles on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is miscfiles

miscfiles is:

These files are not crucial to system administration or operation, but which have come to be common on various systems over the years. They originated from various sources and are freely redistributable (see the copyright file for more information).

These files include those of general interest (English `connectives’, Webster’s Second International English wordlist, traditional stone and flower for each month, Precedence table for operators in the C language, description of the ISO Latin-1 character set, two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639, International country telephone codes, geographic coordinates of many major cities, Some common abbreviations used in electronic communication, GNU mailing lists, country and currency abbreviations, rfc-index, etc.).

There also is information specific to the United States (List of three letter codes for some major airports, North American (+1) telephone area codes, postal codes for US states and Canadian provinces, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install miscfiles

Install miscfiles Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install miscfiles

Install miscfiles 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 miscfiles using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install miscfiles

How To Uninstall miscfiles on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove miscfiles

Uninstall miscfiles And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove miscfiles

Remove miscfiles Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge miscfiles

Remove miscfiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge miscfiles

Dependencies

miscfiles have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• perl

References

• miscfiles website

Summary

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