How To Install polygen-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install polygen-data on Kali Linux.

What is polygen-data

polygen-data is:

PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.

Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time and eventually outputting its result.

Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the sentence built on the way.

This package contains various grammar files suited for polygen.

There are three methods to install polygen-data 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 polygen-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install polygen-data

Install polygen-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install polygen-data

Install polygen-data 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 polygen-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install polygen-data

How To Uninstall polygen-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the polygen-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove polygen-data

Uninstall polygen-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove polygen-data

Remove polygen-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge polygen-data

Remove polygen-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polygen-data

Dependencies

polygen-data have the following dependencies:

• perl
• polygen

References

• polygen-data website

Summary

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