How To Install vuls on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install vuls on Kali Linux. vuls is Vulnerability scanner for Linux/FreeBSD, agentless, written in Go

Introduction

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

What is vuls

vuls is:

This is scanner which checks the package inventory against a local copy of the National Vunerabilities Database (NVD) of vulnerabilities according to their CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) indentifiers. The backends supports a couple of OSs (Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux). Scanning servers over the network is possible.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vuls

Install vuls Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install vuls

Install vuls 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 vuls using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vuls

How To Uninstall vuls on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove vuls

Uninstall vuls And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vuls

Remove vuls Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge vuls

Remove vuls configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vuls

Dependencies

vuls have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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