How To Install swish-e on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install swish-e on Kali Linux. swish-e is Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install swish-e on Kali Linux.

What is swish-e

swish-e is:

SWISH-Enhanced is a fast, powerful, flexible, and easy to use system for indexing collections of HTML Web pages, or any XML or text files like Open Office Documents, Open Document files, emails, and so on.

Key features:

  • Quickly index a large number of text, HTML, and XML documents
  • Use filters to index any type of files such as PDF, OpenOffice, DOC, XLS, PPT, MP3.
  • Includes a web spider for indexing remote documents over HTTP
  • Can use an external program to supply documents including records from a relational database.
  • Word stemming, soundex, metaphone, and double-metaphone indexing for fuzzy searching
  • Powerful Regular Expressions to select documents for indexing or exclusion
  • Limit searches to parts of documents such as certain HTML tags or to XML elements.
  • Index file is portable between platforms.
  • A Swish-e library is provided to allow embedding Swish-e into your applications for very fast searching.

You’ll find ready to use examples for indexing the Debian documentation, PDF, OpenOffice and MSOffice files, whole Maildir, and more.

There are three methods to install swish-e 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 swish-e Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install swish-e

Install swish-e Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install swish-e

Install swish-e 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 swish-e using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install swish-e

How To Uninstall swish-e on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the swish-e package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove swish-e

Uninstall swish-e And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove swish-e

Remove swish-e Configurations and Data

To remove swish-e configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge swish-e

Remove swish-e configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swish-e

Dependencies

swish-e have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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