How To Install rungetty on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is rungetty

rungetty is:

rungetty might be the getty you were looking for. It is able to run any program, not just login. If a different program than login is used it usually is run as nobody:nogroup, or the user/group specified on the commandline. rungetty can even be configured to autologin, under certain circumstances. See the manual page for more information.

You have to change some lines in /etc/inittab for having any effect after installing the package. rungetty is based on mingetty and therefore not suitable for serial use.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rungetty

Install rungetty Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rungetty

Install rungetty 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 rungetty using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rungetty

How To Uninstall rungetty on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rungetty

Uninstall rungetty And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rungetty

Remove rungetty Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rungetty

Remove rungetty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rungetty

Dependencies

rungetty have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• rungetty website

Summary

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