How To Install ruby-rethtool on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-rethtool on Kali Linux.

What is ruby-rethtool

ruby-rethtool is:

Have you ever needed to get at some details about a network interface from inside a Ruby script, but got stuck trying to parse the output of ethtool? If so, you’re one-in-a-million, but at least you don’t have to write an ethtool parser any more. use Rethtool instead!

At present, Rethtool only supports a couple of things:

• Retrieve various details about the interface (link speed, duplex, etc).
• Determine if the link is currently up or down.

Adding extra SIOCETHTOOL features is relatively straightforward, thanks to cstruct and the base infrastructure already in place.

There are three methods to install ruby-rethtool 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 ruby-rethtool Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-rethtool

Install ruby-rethtool Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-rethtool

Install ruby-rethtool 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 ruby-rethtool using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-rethtool

How To Uninstall ruby-rethtool on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ruby-rethtool package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-rethtool

Uninstall ruby-rethtool And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-rethtool

Remove ruby-rethtool Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-rethtool configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-rethtool

Remove ruby-rethtool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-rethtool

Dependencies

ruby-rethtool have the following dependencies:

• ruby

References

• ruby-rethtool website

Summary

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