How To Install passenger on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is passenger

passenger is:

Phusion Passenger ?? a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack ?? makes deployment of Ruby web applications, such as those built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework, a breeze.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install passenger

Install passenger Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install passenger

Install passenger 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 passenger using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install passenger

How To Uninstall passenger on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove passenger

Uninstall passenger And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove passenger

Remove passenger Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge passenger

Remove passenger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge passenger

Dependencies

passenger have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• passenger website

Summary

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