How To Install pollen on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is pollen

pollen is:

Pollen is an Entropy-as-a-Service web server, providing random seeds. This can be performed over both cleartext http and encrypted https TLS connections.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pollen

Install pollen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pollen

Install pollen 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 pollen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pollen

How To Uninstall pollen on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove pollen

Uninstall pollen And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pollen

Remove pollen Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pollen

Remove pollen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pollen

Dependencies

pollen have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcap2-bin
• ent
• adduser
• openssl

References

• pollen website

Summary

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