How To Install statnews on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is statnews

statnews is:

This program may be useful to analyze newsgroups or mailing lists with respect to authors, messages length and frequency, and so on.

At this moment, it operates on local spools only (it has neither NNTP nor HTTP capabilities); the spool has to store one message per file in traditional mbox format.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install statnews

Install statnews Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install statnews

Install statnews 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 statnews using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install statnews

How To Uninstall statnews on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove statnews

Uninstall statnews And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove statnews

Remove statnews Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge statnews

Remove statnews configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge statnews

Dependencies

statnews have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libmime-tools-perl

References

• statnews website

Summary

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