How To Install reposurgeon on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is reposurgeon

reposurgeon is:

reposurgeon enables risky operations that version-control systems don’t want to let you do, such as (a) editing past comments and metadata, (b) excising commits, (c) coalescing commits, and (d) removing files and subtrees from repo history. The original motivation for reposurgeon was to clean up artifacts created by repository conversions.

reposurgeon is also useful for scripting very high-quality conversions from Subversion. It is better than git-svn at tag lifting, automatically cleaning up cvs2svn conversion artifacts, dealing with nonstandard repository layouts, recognizing branch merges, handling mixed-branch commits, and generally at coping with Subversion’s many odd corner cases. Normally Subversion repos should be analyzed at a rate of upwards of ten thousand commits per minute, though that rate can fall significantly on extremely large repositories.

An auxiliary program, repotool, performs various useful operations such as checkouts and tag listing in a VCS-independent manner. Yet another, repomapper, assists in automatically preparing contributor maps of CVS and SVN repositories.

The repocutter program is available for some specialized operations on Subversion dumpfiles; it may be useful in extracting portions of particularly gnarly Subversion repositories for conversion with reposurgeon.

This distribution supports a generic conversion workflow using these tools, and includes a long-form manual “Repository Editing and Conversion With Reposurgeon” that describes how to use it.

The file reposurgeon-git-aliases can be appended to your ~/.gitconfig to support working directly with action stamps in git.

Finally, an Emacs Lisp mode with useful functions for editing large comment message-boxes is included.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install reposurgeon

Install reposurgeon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install reposurgeon

Install reposurgeon 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 reposurgeon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install reposurgeon

How To Uninstall reposurgeon on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove reposurgeon

Uninstall reposurgeon And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove reposurgeon

Remove reposurgeon Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge reposurgeon

Remove reposurgeon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reposurgeon

Dependencies

reposurgeon have the following dependencies:

• tzdata
• libc6

References

• reposurgeon website

Summary

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