How To Install tfortunes on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tfortunes

tfortunes is:

This provides a small set of tagged epigrams for tfortune. These are only used if no personal epigrams are found in the per-user epigram directory.

All epigrams are in English language and are considered non-offensive. They were mostly selected from public mailing lists.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tfortunes

Install tfortunes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tfortunes

Install tfortunes 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 tfortunes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tfortunes

How To Uninstall tfortunes on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tfortunes

Uninstall tfortunes And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tfortunes

Remove tfortunes Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tfortunes

Remove tfortunes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tfortunes

Dependencies

tfortunes have the following dependencies:

• tfortune

References

• tfortunes website

Summary

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