How To Install node-serve-index on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-serve-index on Kali Linux.

What is node-serve-index

node-serve-index is:

This package provides a middleware for serving a directory index at the path built from the current URL of the HTTP Request and a configurable public local path.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

There are three methods to install node-serve-index 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-serve-index Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-serve-index

Install node-serve-index Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-serve-index using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-serve-index

Install node-serve-index 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 node-serve-index using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-serve-index

How To Uninstall node-serve-index on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the node-serve-index package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-serve-index

Uninstall node-serve-index And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-serve-index

Remove node-serve-index Configurations and Data

To remove node-serve-index configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-serve-index

Remove node-serve-index configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove node-serve-index configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-serve-index

Dependencies

node-serve-index have the following dependencies:

• famfamfam-silk
• nodejs
• node-accepts
• node-after
• node-batch
• node-debug
• node-escape-html
• node-http-errors
• node-mime-types
• node-parseurl

References

• node-serve-index website

Summary

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