How To Install pconsole on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is pconsole

pconsole is:

pconsole allows you to connect to each node of your cluster (e.g. via ssh or rsh) simultaneously by spawning one terminal per host or job. Alternatively you can even connect to already existing terminal sessions.

You can type your administrative commands either in a specialized window that ‘multiplies’ the input to each of the connections you have opened or use each of the connected terminals in case one host or job needs some additional commands to be typed.

pconsole is best run from within X Window, although it is possible to employ it without X (in console mode) as well. You need to install pconsole on only 1 machine in the cluster, this would usually be your central administrative node.

pconsole’s X automatisms work well with window-managers which offer a smart placement mode without resizing new windows or with a tiling mode which resizes all windows to the same size.

It is known to work very well with FVWM and has proven less usable with Awesome or Ratpoison. For usage with window-managers focussed on full-screen applications like ratpoison, for parallel interactive SSH sessions MultiSSH (package “mssh”) is probably be the better choice due to managing all SSH sessions in one application window.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pconsole

Install pconsole Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pconsole

Install pconsole 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 pconsole using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pconsole

How To Uninstall pconsole on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove pconsole

Uninstall pconsole And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pconsole

Remove pconsole Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pconsole

Remove pconsole configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pconsole

Dependencies

pconsole have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• libc6

References

• pconsole website

Summary

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