How To Install vnlog on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is vnlog

vnlog is:

Vnlog (pronounced “vanillog”) is a trivially-simple log format consisting of an ASCII table with comments and labelled fields. This package provides tools to process and manipulate such logs. The tools are:

vnl-filter selects a subset of the rows/columns in a vnlog and/or to manipulates the contents. This is effectively an awk wrapper.

vnl-sort, vnl-uniq, vnl-join, vnl-tail and vnl-ts are wrappers around the corresponding commandline tools

vnl-align aligns vnlog columns for easy interpretation by humans

vnl-make-matrix converts a one-point-per-line vnlog to a matrix of data

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vnlog

Install vnlog Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install vnlog

Install vnlog 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 vnlog using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vnlog

How To Uninstall vnlog on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove vnlog

Uninstall vnlog And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vnlog

Remove vnlog Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge vnlog

Remove vnlog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vnlog

Dependencies

vnlog have the following dependencies:

• libvnlog-perl
• perl

References

• vnlog website

Summary

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