How To Install only on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install only
on Kali Linux.
What is only
only is:
The ‘only’ command-line tool lets you search based on word patterns or line patterns like never before! Not only can you search with ‘only -l patt’ but you can select the n-th match with ‘-l n/patt/’ and the next 3 lines with ‘-l /patt/0:3’.
There are three methods to install only
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 only Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install only
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install only
Install only Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install only
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install only
Install only 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 only
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install only
How To Uninstall only on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the only
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove only
Uninstall only And Its Dependencies
To uninstall only
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove only
Remove only Configurations and Data
To remove only
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge only
Remove only configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove only
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge only
Dependencies
only have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install only
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.