How To Install postgresql-client on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-client on Kali Linux.

What is postgresql-client

postgresql-client is:

This metapackage always depends on the currently supported database client package for PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects. Some of the features are: ACID transactions, foreign keys, views, sequences, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions, outer joins, multiversion concurrency control. Graphical user interfaces and bindings for many programming languages are available as well.

There are three methods to install postgresql-client 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 postgresql-client Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-client

Install postgresql-client Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install postgresql-client

Install postgresql-client 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 postgresql-client using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install postgresql-client

How To Uninstall postgresql-client on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the postgresql-client package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove postgresql-client

Uninstall postgresql-client And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove postgresql-client

Remove postgresql-client Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge postgresql-client

Remove postgresql-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge postgresql-client

Dependencies

postgresql-client have the following dependencies:

• postgresql-client-13

References

• postgresql-client website

Summary

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