How To Install shrinksafe on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is shrinksafe

shrinksafe is:

ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript compression system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.

Many other tools also shrink JavaScript files, but ShrinkSafe is different. Instead of relying on brittle regular expressions, ShrinkSafe is based on Rhino, a JavaScript interpreter. This allows ShrinkSafe to transform the source of a file with much more confidence that the resulting script will function identically to the file you uploaded.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install shrinksafe

Install shrinksafe Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install shrinksafe

Install shrinksafe 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 shrinksafe using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install shrinksafe

How To Uninstall shrinksafe on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove shrinksafe

Uninstall shrinksafe And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove shrinksafe

Remove shrinksafe Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge shrinksafe

Remove shrinksafe configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shrinksafe

Dependencies

shrinksafe have the following dependencies:

• default-jre
• jarwrapper
• librhino-java

References

• shrinksafe website

Summary

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