How To Install whohas on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is whohas

whohas is:

whohas is a command line tool that allows you to query several package collections at once.

It supports Arch Linux, AUR, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Slackware, Source Mage, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, Mandriva and MacPorts.

whohas was designed to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds, and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from. However, it can also be used by normal users who want to know which distribution provides certain packages, and which version of a given package is in use in each distribution or in each release of a distribution.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install whohas

Install whohas Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install whohas

Install whohas 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 whohas using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install whohas

How To Uninstall whohas on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove whohas

Uninstall whohas And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove whohas

Remove whohas Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge whohas

Remove whohas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge whohas

Dependencies

whohas have the following dependencies:

• libforks-perl
• libwww-perl
• perl

References

• whohas website

Summary

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