How To Install sixer on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is sixer

sixer is:

Sixer is a tool adding Python 3 support to a Python 2 project. It was written to produces patches to port OpenStack to Python 3. It is focused on supporting Python 2.7 and 3.4.

It uses basic regular expressions to find code which needs to be modified. It emits warnings when code was not patched or looks suspicious.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sixer

Install sixer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sixer

Install sixer 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 sixer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sixer

How To Uninstall sixer on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove sixer

Uninstall sixer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sixer

Remove sixer Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sixer

Remove sixer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sixer

Dependencies

sixer have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• sixer website

Summary

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