How To Install pollinate on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is pollinate

pollinate is:

This client will connect to one or more Pollen (entropy-as-a-service) servers over an (optionally) encrypted connection and retrieve a random seed over HTTP or HTTPS. This is particularly useful at the first boot of cloud images and in virtual machines, to seed a system’s random number generator at genesis, and is intended to supplement the /etc/init.d/urandom init script. It can be used on physical machines, as well, to supplement the seeding of the pseudo random number generator.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pollinate

Install pollinate Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pollinate

Install pollinate 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 pollinate using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pollinate

How To Uninstall pollinate on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove pollinate

Uninstall pollinate And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pollinate

Remove pollinate Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pollinate

Remove pollinate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pollinate

Dependencies

pollinate have the following dependencies:

• curl
• adduser
• xxd

References

• pollinate website

Summary

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