How To Install porg on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install porg on Kali Linux.
What is porg
porg is:
Porg (formerly known as paco), is a program to aid management of software packages installed from source code.
After the installation of such packages, one is usually left with having no idea of what it was installed and where it all went, making it difficult to uninstall the package in the future. Porg was written to solve this problem in a quite simple fashion.
When installing a package from sources, porg wraps the install command (e.g. “make install”), and saves installation information into a its own flat-file text database.
This package is a complete replacement for the deprecated ‘paco’ package.
There are three methods to install porg 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 porg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install porg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install porgInstall porg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install porg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install porgInstall porg 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install porg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install porgHow To Uninstall porg on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the porg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove porgUninstall porg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall porg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove porgRemove porg Configurations and Data
To remove porg configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge porgRemove porg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove porg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge porgDependencies
porg have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install porg package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.