How To Install wims-moodle on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wims-moodle on Kali Linux.
What is wims-moodle
wims-moodle is:
Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a course management system - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses.
Wims is an educational platform originally developed for mathematics but now also supporting subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, and languages. Its more striking feature is to provide a huge quantity of interactive exercises with randomly assigned data, allowing the learners to work on the same type of exercise but with different data and as often as they want.
This module adds the possibility to define Wims classes as special assignments in Moodle. Wims classes come in two flavors: one is meant to contain a set of worksheets (interactive randomly generated exercices for the students), and the other one is meant to contain exams. The content of exams are based on previously published worksheets.
The students already logged in Moodle are automatically logged into Wims, and as they close the Wims session they entered, their scores in Moodle are updated.
There are three methods to install wims-moodle 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 wims-moodle Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install wims-moodle using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wims-moodleInstall wims-moodle Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install wims-moodle using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wims-moodleInstall wims-moodle 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install wims-moodle using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wims-moodleHow To Uninstall wims-moodle on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the wims-moodle package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wims-moodleUninstall wims-moodle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wims-moodle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wims-moodleRemove wims-moodle Configurations and Data
To remove wims-moodle configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wims-moodleRemove wims-moodle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wims-moodle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wims-moodleDependencies
wims-moodle have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wims-moodle package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.