How To Install python3-eliot on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-eliot on Kali Linux. python3-eliot is logging library for Python that tells you why things happen

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-eliot on Kali Linux.

What is python3-eliot

python3-eliot is:

Most logging systems tell you what happened in your application, whereas eliot also tells you why it happened.

eliot is a Python logging system that outputs causal chains of actions: actions can spawn other actions, and eventually they either succeed or fail. The resulting logs tell you the story of what your software did: what happened, and what caused it.

Eliot works well within a single process, but can also be used across multiple processes to trace causality across a distributed system.

Eliot is only used to generate your logs; you will still need tools like Logstash and ElasticSearch to aggregate and store logs if you are using multiple processes.

There are three methods to install python3-eliot 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 python3-eliot Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-eliot using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-eliot

Install python3-eliot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-eliot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-eliot

Install python3-eliot 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 python3-eliot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-eliot

How To Uninstall python3-eliot on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-eliot package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-eliot

Uninstall python3-eliot And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-eliot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-eliot

Remove python3-eliot Configurations and Data

To remove python3-eliot configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-eliot

Remove python3-eliot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-eliot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-eliot

Dependencies

python3-eliot have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-eliot package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.