How To Install shellcheck on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install shellcheck on Kali Linux. shellcheck is lint tool for shell scripts

Introduction

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

What is shellcheck

shellcheck is:

The goals of ShellCheck are:

  • To point out and clarify typical beginner’s syntax issues, that causes a shell to give cryptic error messages.

  • To point out and clarify typical intermediate level semantic problems, that causes a shell to behave strangely and counter-intuitively.

  • To point out subtle caveats, corner cases and pitfalls, that may cause an advanced user’s otherwise working script to fail under future circumstances.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install shellcheck

Install shellcheck Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install shellcheck

Install shellcheck 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 shellcheck using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install shellcheck

How To Uninstall shellcheck on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove shellcheck

Uninstall shellcheck And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove shellcheck

Remove shellcheck Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge shellcheck

Remove shellcheck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shellcheck

Dependencies

shellcheck have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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