How To Install openguides on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is openguides

openguides is:

The OpenGuides software provides the framework for a collaboratively-written city guide. It is similar to a wiki but provides somewhat more structured data storage allowing you to annotate wiki pages with information such as category, location, and much more. It provides searching facilities including “find me everything within a certain distance of this place”. Every page includes a link to a machine-readable (RDF) version of the page.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install openguides

Install openguides Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install openguides

Install openguides 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 openguides using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openguides

How To Uninstall openguides on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove openguides

Uninstall openguides And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openguides

Remove openguides Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge openguides

Remove openguides configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openguides

Dependencies

openguides have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• perl

References

• openguides website

Summary

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