How To Install whereami on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is whereami

whereami is:

whereami is a set of useful scripts and a coordinating system for automatically re-locating your computer within the current (network) environment.

Typically, you would use whereami to automatically detect and re-configure your laptop when you move between a variety of diverse networks and/or docking environments.

Although whereami will work best if all of your networks assign addresses through dhcp, this is not a pre-requisite and the system allows any technique to be used to ascertain the new location with as little ongoing user intervention as possible.

Having ascertained the correct location, whereami will run appropriate (user-configured) scripts to adjust the laptop operation to suit the current environment.

See the man pages for more information. You may also get useful assistance from the debian-laptop mailing list, which is frequented by several of the users and contributors.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install whereami

Install whereami Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install whereami

Install whereami 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 whereami using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install whereami

How To Uninstall whereami on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove whereami

Uninstall whereami And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove whereami

Remove whereami Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge whereami

Remove whereami configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge whereami

Dependencies

whereami have the following dependencies:

• perl
• fping

References

• whereami website

Summary

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