How To Install node-getpass on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-getpass
on Kali Linux.
What is node-getpass
node-getpass is:
This library can be used to get a password from the terminal. Even though it sounds simple and sounds like the
readline
module should be able to do it. But readline module does not support it.
If available, this uses /dev/tty
to avoid interfering with any data being
piped in or out of stdio. This function prints a prompt (by default
Password:
) and then accepts input without echoing.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-getpass
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 node-getpass Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install node-getpass
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install node-getpass Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install node-getpass
using apt
by running the following command:
Install node-getpass 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.
After updating apt database, We can install node-getpass
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall node-getpass on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the node-getpass
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall node-getpass And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-getpass
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove node-getpass Configurations and Data
To remove node-getpass
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove node-getpass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-getpass
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
node-getpass have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-getpass
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.