How To Install rt4-db-sqlite on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rt4-db-sqlite on Kali Linux.

What is rt4-db-sqlite

rt4-db-sqlite is:

Request Tracker (RT) is a ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users. It features web, email, and command-line interfaces (see the package rt4-clients).

RT manages key tasks such as the identification, prioritization, assignment, resolution, and notification required by enterprise-critical applications, including project management, help desk, NOC ticketing, CRM, and software development.

This package provides the 4 series of RT. It can be installed alongside the 3.8 series without any problems.

This empty package provides dependencies and dbconfig-common support for using Request Tracker version 4 with a local SQLite (version 3) database.

This package will be pulled in by default by request-tracker4, but SQLite is not recommended for production use. Please see /usr/share/doc/request-tracker4/NOTES.Debian for more details and consider installing rt4-db-postgresql or rt4-db-mysql instead of this package.

There are three methods to install rt4-db-sqlite 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 rt4-db-sqlite Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install rt4-db-sqlite using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install rt4-db-sqlite

Install rt4-db-sqlite Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rt4-db-sqlite using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rt4-db-sqlite

Install rt4-db-sqlite 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 rt4-db-sqlite using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rt4-db-sqlite

How To Uninstall rt4-db-sqlite on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rt4-db-sqlite package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rt4-db-sqlite

Uninstall rt4-db-sqlite And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rt4-db-sqlite and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rt4-db-sqlite

Remove rt4-db-sqlite Configurations and Data

To remove rt4-db-sqlite configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rt4-db-sqlite

Remove rt4-db-sqlite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove rt4-db-sqlite configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rt4-db-sqlite

Dependencies

rt4-db-sqlite have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• libdbd-sqlite3-perl
• sqlite3

References

• rt4-db-sqlite website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rt4-db-sqlite package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.