How To Install mon-contrib on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mon-contrib on Kali Linux.

What is mon-contrib

mon-contrib is:

mon-contrib is the mon /contrib archive. It contains user-submitted add-ons to mon, which are not included in the main mon distribution.

Most submissions are not checked by the archive maintainers for quality and some may not work, or work how you expect them to (most are quite good, though).

If you have something to contribute, either a new submission or a patch to another contrib’ed item, great! Please read the contrib guidelines to speed up the inclusion of your submission in the archives.

There are three methods to install mon-contrib 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 mon-contrib Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mon-contrib

Install mon-contrib Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mon-contrib

Install mon-contrib 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 mon-contrib using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mon-contrib

How To Uninstall mon-contrib on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mon-contrib package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mon-contrib

Uninstall mon-contrib And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mon-contrib

Remove mon-contrib Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mon-contrib

Remove mon-contrib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mon-contrib

Dependencies

mon-contrib have the following dependencies:

• mon

References

• mon-contrib website

Summary

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