How To Install witnessme on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install witnessme on Kali Linux. witnessme is Web Inventory tool

Introduction

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

What is witnessme

witnessme is:

This package contains a Web Inventory tool inspired by Eyewitness, its also written to be extensible allowing you to create custom functionality that can take advantage of the headless browser it drives in the back-end.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install witnessme

Install witnessme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install witnessme

Install witnessme 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 witnessme using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install witnessme

How To Uninstall witnessme on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove witnessme

Uninstall witnessme And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove witnessme

Remove witnessme Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge witnessme

Remove witnessme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge witnessme

Dependencies

witnessme have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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