How To Install toxic on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install toxic on Kali Linux. toxic is curses Tox based instant messenging client

Introduction

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

What is toxic

toxic is:

This is a Tox-based instant messenging client which formerly resided in the Tox core repository, and is now available as a standalone application.

Tox is a secure and distributed Skype replacement.

At its heart it??s a client dealing with its core library communicating on its own protocol. All communications are encrypted using the peer audited NaCl cypto library and this encryption can not be turned off.

Tox is powered by a distributed network which uses P2P connections for chats between people, unlike other Skype replacements no federated servers, centralized servers, or supernodes are used.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install toxic

Install toxic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install toxic

Install toxic 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 toxic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install toxic

How To Uninstall toxic on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove toxic

Uninstall toxic And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove toxic

Remove toxic Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge toxic

Remove toxic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge toxic

Dependencies

toxic have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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