How To Install ocsinventory-server on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocsinventory-server on Kali Linux.

What is ocsinventory-server

ocsinventory-server is:

Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computers configuration and software that are installed on the network.

Information about Hardware and Operating System are collected. OCS Inventory is also able to detect all active devices on your network, such as switch, router, network printer and unattended devices. It also allows deploying software, commands or files on client computers.

This package contains the ‘Communication Server’ part. Note that this is the XML-RPC/SOAP server, not the web interface (which is provided in the ocsinventory-reports package).

There are three methods to install ocsinventory-server 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 ocsinventory-server Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ocsinventory-server

Install ocsinventory-server Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ocsinventory-server

Install ocsinventory-server 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 ocsinventory-server using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ocsinventory-server

How To Uninstall ocsinventory-server on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ocsinventory-server package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ocsinventory-server

Uninstall ocsinventory-server And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ocsinventory-server

Remove ocsinventory-server Configurations and Data

To remove ocsinventory-server configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ocsinventory-server

Remove ocsinventory-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ocsinventory-server

Dependencies

ocsinventory-server have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• ocsinventory-server website

Summary

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