How To Install sharness on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sharness
on Kali Linux.
What is sharness
sharness is:
Sharness is a portable shell library to write, run, and analyze automated tests for Unix programs. Since all tests output TAP, the Test Anything Protocol, they can be run with any TAP harness.
There are three methods to install sharness
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 sharness Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sharness
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sharness
Install sharness Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sharness
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sharness
Install sharness 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 sharness
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sharness
How To Uninstall sharness on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the sharness
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sharness
Uninstall sharness And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sharness
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sharness
Remove sharness Configurations and Data
To remove sharness
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sharness
Remove sharness configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sharness
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sharness
Dependencies
sharness have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sharness
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.