How To Install pycadf-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pycadf-common on Kali Linux.

What is pycadf-common

pycadf-common is:

pyCADF is an implementation of DMTF Cloud Audit (CADF) data model. DMTF Cloud Management Initiative is promoting the work of the Cloud Management Work Group, the Cloud Auditing Data Federation Working Group, the System Virtualization, Partitioning, Clustering Working Group and the Software Entitlement Working Group. See http://dmtf.org for details.

This package contains the common files for both Python 2.7 and 3.x modules.

There are three methods to install pycadf-common 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 pycadf-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pycadf-common

Install pycadf-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pycadf-common

Install pycadf-common 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 pycadf-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pycadf-common

How To Uninstall pycadf-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pycadf-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pycadf-common

Uninstall pycadf-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pycadf-common

Remove pycadf-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pycadf-common

Remove pycadf-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pycadf-common

Dependencies

pycadf-common have the following dependencies:

References

• pycadf-common website

Summary

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