How To Install parafly on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is parafly

parafly is:

ParaFly provides a simple mechanism for running a predefined list of unix commands in parallel using multithreading. Failed processes are captured and reported. Successfully executed processes are noted. If the process is rerun, only those previously incompleted or failed processes will be executed.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install parafly

Install parafly Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install parafly

Install parafly 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 parafly using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install parafly

How To Uninstall parafly on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove parafly

Uninstall parafly And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove parafly

Remove parafly Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge parafly

Remove parafly configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge parafly

Dependencies

parafly have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libgomp1
• libstdc++6

References

• parafly website

Summary

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