How To Install phing on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is phing

phing is:

PHing Is Not GNU make; it’s a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations, etc.), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, and much more.

Phing provides the following features:

• Simple XML buildfiles
• Rich set of provided tasks
• Easily extendable via PHP classes

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phing

Install phing Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phing

Install phing 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 phing using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phing

How To Uninstall phing on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove phing

Uninstall phing And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phing

Remove phing Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phing

Remove phing configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phing

Dependencies

phing have the following dependencies:

• php-cli
• php-common

References

• phing website

Summary

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