How To Install statserial on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is statserial

statserial is:

Statserial displays a table of the signals on a standard 9-pin or 25-pin serial port, and indicates the status of the handshaking lines. It can be useful for debugging problems with serial ports or modems.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install statserial

Install statserial Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install statserial

Install statserial 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 statserial using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install statserial

How To Uninstall statserial on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove statserial

Uninstall statserial And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove statserial

Remove statserial Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge statserial

Remove statserial configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge statserial

Dependencies

statserial have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libncurses6
• libtinfo6

References

• statserial website

Summary

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