How To Install ucspi-unix on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ucspi-unix
on Kali Linux.
What is ucspi-unix
ucspi-unix is:
unixclient and unixserver are command-line tools for building UNIX domain client-server applications. unixclient connects to a UNIX domain socket and runs a program of your choice. unixserver creates a UNIX domain socket, waits for incoming connections and, for each connection, runs a program of your choice.
unixclient and unixserver conform to UCSPI, the UNIX Client-Server Program Interface, using UNIX domain sockets. UCSPI tools are available for several different networks.
See http://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt for more information on UCSPI.
There are three methods to install ucspi-unix
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 ucspi-unix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ucspi-unix
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ucspi-unix
Install ucspi-unix Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ucspi-unix
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ucspi-unix
Install ucspi-unix 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 ucspi-unix
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ucspi-unix
How To Uninstall ucspi-unix on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ucspi-unix
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ucspi-unix
Uninstall ucspi-unix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ucspi-unix
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ucspi-unix
Remove ucspi-unix Configurations and Data
To remove ucspi-unix
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ucspi-unix
Remove ucspi-unix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ucspi-unix
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ucspi-unix
Dependencies
ucspi-unix have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ucspi-unix
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.