How To Install shoelaces on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install shoelaces on Kali Linux. shoelaces is automated server bootstrapping

Introduction

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

What is shoelaces

shoelaces is:

Shoelaces provides a mechanism for automating the bootstrapping of servers. It serves iPXE boot scripts, cloud-init configurations and, actually, any kind of plain text files.

Shoelaces main features are:

  • automation of the boot script to serve for a given server based on its IP address or DNS PTR record.
  • usage of Go templates to serve the configurations, allowing the user to customize them with parameters received via GET request.
  • web UI to show the current configurations, and history of servers that booted.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install shoelaces

Install shoelaces Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install shoelaces

Install shoelaces 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 shoelaces using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install shoelaces

How To Uninstall shoelaces on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove shoelaces

Uninstall shoelaces And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove shoelaces

Remove shoelaces Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge shoelaces

Remove shoelaces configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shoelaces

Dependencies

shoelaces have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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