How To Install mzclient on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mzclient on Kali Linux. mzclient is CLI library for multicast DNS service discovery (commandline tool)

Introduction

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

What is mzclient

mzclient is:

Mono.Zeroconf is a cross platform Zero Configuration Networking library for Mono and .NET. It provides a unified API for performing the most common zeroconf operations on a variety of platforms and subsystems: all the operating systems supported by Mono and both the Avahi and Bonjour/mDNSResponder transports.

By using Mono.ZeroConf applications can use a single API that will work regardless of the underlying implementation that a particular operating system uses.

Applications can publish services that will be exposed to other computers on the network and also query the local machines on the network for services that could have been exposed.

This package contains the mzclient tool, that can be used for resolving or publishing services from the commandline.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mzclient

Install mzclient Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mzclient

Install mzclient 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 mzclient using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mzclient

How To Uninstall mzclient on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mzclient

Uninstall mzclient And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mzclient

Remove mzclient Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mzclient

Remove mzclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mzclient

Dependencies

mzclient have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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