How To Install tagcloud on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tagcloud

tagcloud is:

Tagcloud will start a simple web server and display a webpage where you can choose which textfile to create a tagcloud from. You can then click on tags to retrieve the notes, as well as search the fulltext of all the notes.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tagcloud

Install tagcloud Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tagcloud

Install tagcloud 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 tagcloud using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tagcloud

How To Uninstall tagcloud on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tagcloud

Uninstall tagcloud And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tagcloud

Remove tagcloud Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tagcloud

Remove tagcloud configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tagcloud

Dependencies

tagcloud have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libhtml-parser-perl
• libhtml-tagcloud-perl
• libhttp-server-simple-perl

References

• tagcloud website

Summary

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