How To Install python3-invoke on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-invoke on Kali Linux. python3-invoke is Pythonic task execution - Python 3.x

Introduction

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

What is python3-invoke

python3-invoke is:

Invoke is a Python (2.6+ and 3.2+) task execution tool and library, drawing inspiration from various sources to arrive at a powerful and clean feature set.

Like Ruby’s Rake tool and Invoke’s own predecessor Fabric 1.x, it provides a clean, high level API for running shell commands and defining/organizing task functions from a tasks.py file.

From GNU Make, it inherits an emphasis on minimal boilerplate for common patterns and the ability to run multiple tasks in a single invocation.

Following the lead of most Unix CLI applications, it offers a traditional flag-based style of command-line parsing, deriving flag names and value types from task signatures.

Like many of its predecessors, it offers advanced features as well: namespacing, task aliasing, before/after hooks, parallel execution and more.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

There are three methods to install python3-invoke 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-invoke 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-invoke using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-invoke

Install python3-invoke Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-invoke

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-invoke

How To Uninstall python3-invoke on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-invoke

Uninstall python3-invoke And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-invoke

Remove python3-invoke Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-invoke

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-invoke have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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