How To Install munin-plugins-extra on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install munin-plugins-extra on Kali Linux.

What is munin-plugins-extra

munin-plugins-extra is:

Munin is a highly flexible and powerful solution used to create graphs of virtually everything imaginable throughout your network, while still maintaining a rattling ease of installation and configuration.

This package contains unsupported plugins for the Munin node, contributed by various users of Munin.

Munin is written in Perl, and relies heavily on Tobi Oetiker’s excellent RRDtool. To see a real example of Munin in action, you can follow a link from http://munin-monitoring.org/ to a live installation.

There are three methods to install munin-plugins-extra 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 munin-plugins-extra Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install munin-plugins-extra

Install munin-plugins-extra Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install munin-plugins-extra using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install munin-plugins-extra

Install munin-plugins-extra 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 munin-plugins-extra using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install munin-plugins-extra

How To Uninstall munin-plugins-extra on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the munin-plugins-extra package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove munin-plugins-extra

Uninstall munin-plugins-extra And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove munin-plugins-extra

Remove munin-plugins-extra Configurations and Data

To remove munin-plugins-extra configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge munin-plugins-extra

Remove munin-plugins-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove munin-plugins-extra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge munin-plugins-extra

Dependencies

munin-plugins-extra have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• munin-plugins-extra website

Summary

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