How To Install sputnik on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install sputnik on Kali Linux. sputnik is Extensible wiki

Introduction

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

What is sputnik

sputnik is:

Sputnik is a wiki written in Lua. It is also a platform for building a range of wiki-like applications, drawing on Lua’s strengths as an extension language.

Out of the box Sputnik behaves like a wiki with all the standard wiki features: editable pages, protection against spam bots, history view of pages, diff, preview, per-page-RSS feed for site changes.

At the same time, Sputnik is designed to be used as a platform for a wide range of “social software” applications. Sputnik stores its data as versioned “pages” that can be editable through the web, and it allows those pages to store any data that can be saved as text (prose, comma-separated values, lists of named parameters, Lua tables, mbox-formatted messages, XML, etc.) While by default the page is displayed as if it carried Markdown-formatted text, the way the page is viewed (or edited, or saved, etc.) can be overridden on a per-page basis by over-riding or adding “actions”.

The packages provide a wide range of storage modules that may require one of the suggested packages: git, lua5.1-sql-sqlite3, lua5.1-sql-mysql.

The easiest form of deployment is by using the Xavante web server.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sputnik

Install sputnik Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install sputnik

Install sputnik 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 sputnik using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sputnik

How To Uninstall sputnik on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove sputnik

Uninstall sputnik And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sputnik

Remove sputnik Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sputnik

Remove sputnik configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sputnik

Dependencies

sputnik have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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