How To Install mycli on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mycli
on Kali Linux.
What is mycli
mycli is:
This is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. The CLI is also capable of pretty printing tabular data.
There are three methods to install mycli
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 mycli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mycli
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mycli
Install mycli Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mycli
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mycli
Install mycli 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 mycli
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mycli
How To Uninstall mycli on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mycli
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mycli
Uninstall mycli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mycli
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mycli
Remove mycli Configurations and Data
To remove mycli
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mycli
Remove mycli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mycli
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mycli
Dependencies
mycli have the following dependencies:
- python3-click
- python3-configobj
- python3-cryptography
- python3-pkg-resources
- python3-prompt-toolkit
- python3-pygments
- python3-pymysql
- python3-sqlparse
- python3-tabulate
- python3-terminaltables
- python3-pyperclip
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mycli
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.