How To Install svtools on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is svtools

svtools is:

This package provides some useful utilities to maintain supervised services and to handle multilog log files:

svdir: Find daemontools service directory. svinfo: Get infos about a supervised process. svinitd: init.d weapper for daemontools services. svinitd-create: Create an init.d-script for a supervices process. svsetup: Service setup tool for daemontools. mlcat: cat frontend for multilog files. mlhead: head frontend for multilog files. mltail: tail frontend for multilog files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install svtools

Install svtools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install svtools

Install svtools 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 svtools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install svtools

How To Uninstall svtools on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove svtools

Uninstall svtools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove svtools

Remove svtools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge svtools

Remove svtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge svtools

Dependencies

svtools have the following dependencies:

• bsdextrautils

References

• svtools website

Summary

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