How To Install wswiss on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is wswiss

wswiss is:

This is a wordlist with the new German orthography (de-CH-1996), which is used since 1998-08-01 and which is obligatory as of 2005-08-01.

It is based on the famous hkgerman dictionary (using the old German orthography, which is available as wogerman), with many corrections and additions.

Most notably this variant supports swiss spelling. This includes some Swiss words, as well as ss instead of German sz ligature.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wswiss

Install wswiss Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wswiss

Install wswiss 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 wswiss using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wswiss

How To Uninstall wswiss on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove wswiss

Uninstall wswiss And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wswiss

Remove wswiss Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wswiss

Remove wswiss configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wswiss

Dependencies

wswiss have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• dictionaries-common

References

• wswiss website

Summary

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