How To Install tack on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tack

tack is:

The ’tack’ program is a diagnostic tool that is designed to create and verify the correctness of terminfo’s. This program can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard ncurses release.

Although ’tack’ has been distributed with ncurses-bin, it is not an integral part of ncurses and was thus split out from it by upstream.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tack

Install tack Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tack

Install tack 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 tack using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tack

How To Uninstall tack on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tack

Uninstall tack And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tack

Remove tack Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tack

Remove tack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tack

Dependencies

tack have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libncurses6
• libtinfo6

References

• tack website

Summary

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