How To Install sbuild on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sbuild
on Kali Linux.
What is sbuild
sbuild is:
The sbuild suite of programs (buildd and sbuild) are used to build binary packages from source packages. sbuild does the actual package building.
sbuild uses chroots to build packages, which act as virtual, minimal operating system installations dedicated to package building. This means that a number of environments may be used for building simultaneously on the same machines, for example stable, testing, unstable and experimental. When coupled with schroot to create snapshots of chroots, sbuild may be used to build many packages in parallel. A chroot environment allows packages to be built in a controlled, clean environment. sbuild installs only essential and build-essential packages, plus those in the package build dependencies.
There are three methods to install sbuild
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 sbuild Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install sbuild
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install sbuild Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install sbuild
using apt
by running the following command:
Install sbuild 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.
After updating apt database, We can install sbuild
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall sbuild on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the sbuild
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall sbuild And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sbuild
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove sbuild Configurations and Data
To remove sbuild
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove sbuild configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sbuild
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
sbuild have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sbuild
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.