How To Install silver-platter on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install silver-platter on Kali Linux. silver-platter is automatically create merge proposals

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install silver-platter on Kali Linux.

What is silver-platter

silver-platter is:

Silver-Platter makes it possible to contribute automatable changes to source code in a version control system.

It automatically creates a local checkout of a remote repository, make user-specified changes, publish those changes on the remote hosting site and then creates pull request.

In addition to that, it can also perform basic maintenance on branches that have been proposed for merging - such as restarting them if they have conflicts due to upstream changes.

There are three methods to install silver-platter 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 silver-platter Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install silver-platter

Install silver-platter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install silver-platter

Install silver-platter 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 silver-platter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install silver-platter

How To Uninstall silver-platter on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the silver-platter package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove silver-platter

Uninstall silver-platter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove silver-platter

Remove silver-platter Configurations and Data

To remove silver-platter configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge silver-platter

Remove silver-platter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge silver-platter

Dependencies

silver-platter have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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