How To Install reportbug on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is reportbug

reportbug is:

reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian and derived distributions relatively painless. Its features include:

• Integration with many mail user agents.
• Access to outstanding bug reports to make it easier to identify whether problems have already been reported.
• Automatic checking for newer versions of packages.
• Optional automatic verification of integrity of packages via debsums.
• Support for following-up on outstanding reports.
• Optional PGP/GnuPG integration.

Bug reporting in Debian relies on email; reportbug can use a local mail transport agent (like exim or sendmail), submit directly through an external mail server, or pass messages to an installed mail user agent (e.g., mutt) for submission.

This package also includes the “querybts” script for browsing the Debian bug tracking system.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install reportbug

Install reportbug Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install reportbug

Install reportbug 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 reportbug using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install reportbug

How To Uninstall reportbug on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove reportbug

Uninstall reportbug And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove reportbug

Remove reportbug Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge reportbug

Remove reportbug configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reportbug

Dependencies

reportbug have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• reportbug website

Summary

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