How To Install rainbows on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is rainbows

rainbows is:

Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rainbows

Install rainbows Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rainbows

Install rainbows 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 rainbows using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rainbows

How To Uninstall rainbows on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rainbows

Uninstall rainbows And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rainbows

Remove rainbows Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rainbows

Remove rainbows configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rainbows

Dependencies

rainbows have the following dependencies:

• ruby
• ruby-kgio
• ruby-rack
• unicorn

References

• rainbows website

Summary

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