How To Install rblcheck on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is rblcheck

rblcheck is:

This program is a very basic interface to DNS Blackhole Lists. The basic idea of the filter is that when someone is blacklisted for email abuse of some sort, a new domain name is resolved of the form “2.0.0.127.domain.name.com”, where 2.0.0.127 is the abusive IP address in reverse (for example, 2.0.0.127 would be the IP address 127.0.0.2), and “domain.name.com” is the base domain name of the filtering service.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rblcheck

Install rblcheck Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rblcheck

Install rblcheck 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 rblcheck using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rblcheck

How To Uninstall rblcheck on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rblcheck

Uninstall rblcheck And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rblcheck

Remove rblcheck Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rblcheck

Remove rblcheck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rblcheck

Dependencies

rblcheck have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• rblcheck website

Summary

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