How To Install wmi-client on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmi-client
on Kali Linux.
What is wmi-client
wmi-client is:
This DCOM/WMI client implementation is based on Samba4 sources. It uses RPC/DCOM mechanisms to interact with WMI services on Windows 2000/XP/2003 machines.
This package contains the command line client to perform remote command execution on Windows systems.
There are three methods to install wmi-client
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 wmi-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wmi-client
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wmi-client
Install wmi-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wmi-client
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wmi-client
Install wmi-client 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 wmi-client
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wmi-client
How To Uninstall wmi-client on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the wmi-client
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wmi-client
Uninstall wmi-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wmi-client
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmi-client
Remove wmi-client Configurations and Data
To remove wmi-client
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wmi-client
Remove wmi-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wmi-client
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmi-client
Dependencies
wmi-client have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmi-client
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.