How To Install pebble on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is pebble

pebble is:

Pebble is a miniature version of Boulder (https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder) that can assist in the development and testing of ACME clients against the standard without having to setup a full production-capable ACME server.

Pebble is NOT designed for production use and is for testing only. By design, it will drop all of its state between invocations and will randomize keys and certificates used for issuance!

Pebble has several top level goals:

1. Provide a simplified ACME testing front end
2. Provide a test-bed for new and compatibility breaking ACME features
3. Encourage ACME client best-practices
4. Aggressively build in guardrails against non-testing usage

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pebble

Install pebble Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pebble

Install pebble 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 pebble using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pebble

How To Uninstall pebble on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove pebble

Uninstall pebble And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pebble

Remove pebble Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pebble

Remove pebble configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pebble

Dependencies

pebble have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• pebble website

Summary

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