How To Install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap on Kali Linux.

What is openhpi-plugin-oa-soap

openhpi-plugin-oa-soap is:

OpenHPI is an implementation of the Service Availability Forum’s Hardware Platform Interface specification. (See http://www.saforum.org) As such, OpenHPI facilitates the development of computer manageability applications which are not tied to a single hardware vendor’s products.

This package contains a plugin module that provides hardware information from HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures, accessing this information using SOAP/XML to an Onboard Administrator module, over a LAN.

There are three methods to install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap 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 openhpi-plugin-oa-soap Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap

Install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap

Install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap 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 openhpi-plugin-oa-soap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openhpi-plugin-oa-soap

How To Uninstall openhpi-plugin-oa-soap on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the openhpi-plugin-oa-soap package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openhpi-plugin-oa-soap

Uninstall openhpi-plugin-oa-soap And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openhpi-plugin-oa-soap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openhpi-plugin-oa-soap

Remove openhpi-plugin-oa-soap Configurations and Data

To remove openhpi-plugin-oa-soap configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openhpi-plugin-oa-soap

Remove openhpi-plugin-oa-soap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove openhpi-plugin-oa-soap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openhpi-plugin-oa-soap

Dependencies

openhpi-plugin-oa-soap have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libopenhpi3
• libxml2

References

• openhpi-plugin-oa-soap website

Summary

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