How To Install webext-https-everywhere on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install webext-https-everywhere on Kali Linux.

What is webext-https-everywhere

webext-https-everywhere is:

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox/Iceweasel/Chromium extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.

Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.

The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.

There are three methods to install webext-https-everywhere 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 webext-https-everywhere Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install webext-https-everywhere

Install webext-https-everywhere Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install webext-https-everywhere using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install webext-https-everywhere

Install webext-https-everywhere 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 webext-https-everywhere using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install webext-https-everywhere

How To Uninstall webext-https-everywhere on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the webext-https-everywhere package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove webext-https-everywhere

Uninstall webext-https-everywhere And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove webext-https-everywhere

Remove webext-https-everywhere Configurations and Data

To remove webext-https-everywhere configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge webext-https-everywhere

Remove webext-https-everywhere configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove webext-https-everywhere configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge webext-https-everywhere

Dependencies

webext-https-everywhere have the following dependencies:

References

• webext-https-everywhere website

Summary

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