How To Install statgrab on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is statgrab

statgrab is:

statgrab provides an access to system statistics using a sysctl-style interface. This is useful for applications that don’t want to make library calls, but still want to access the statistics. An example is mrtg, for which scripts are provided to generate configuration files.

statgrab utilizes libstatgrab library.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install statgrab

Install statgrab Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install statgrab

Install statgrab 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 statgrab using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install statgrab

How To Uninstall statgrab on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove statgrab

Uninstall statgrab And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove statgrab

Remove statgrab Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge statgrab

Remove statgrab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge statgrab

Dependencies

statgrab have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libstatgrab10

References

• statgrab website

Summary

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