How To Install progress on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is progress

progress is:

This tool can be described as a Tiny, Dirty, Linux-and-OSX-Only C command that looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput, and provide a “top-like” mode (monitoring).

It simply scans /proc for interesting commands, and then looks at directories fd and fdinfo to find opened files and seek positions, and reports status for the largest file.

It’s very light, and compatible with virtually any command. This program was formerly known as ‘cv’ on github.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install progress

Install progress Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install progress

Install progress 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 progress using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install progress

How To Uninstall progress on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove progress

Uninstall progress And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove progress

Remove progress Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge progress

Remove progress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge progress

Dependencies

progress have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libncurses6
• libtinfo6

References

• progress website

Summary

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