How To Install ow-tools on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ow-tools on Kali Linux.

What is ow-tools

ow-tools is:

The 1-Wire bus is a cheap low-speed bus for devices like weather sensors, access control, etc. It can be attached to your system via serial, USB, I2C, and other interfaces.

This package includes two TclTk tools:

• owtap: inspect network transmission of the owserver protocol
• owmon: show statistics and setting for an owserver

There are three methods to install ow-tools 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 ow-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ow-tools

Install ow-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ow-tools

Install ow-tools 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 ow-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ow-tools

How To Uninstall ow-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ow-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ow-tools

Uninstall ow-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ow-tools

Remove ow-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ow-tools

Remove ow-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ow-tools

Dependencies

ow-tools have the following dependencies:

• tk

References

• ow-tools website

Summary

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