How To Install archmage on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install archmage on Kali Linux. archmage is CHM (Compiled HTML) Decompressor

Introduction

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

What is archmage

archmage is:

arCHMage is a reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is also known as Compiled HTML.

arCHMage provides the following features:

  • Extracting CHM content to set of HTML, CSS files and images
  • Dumping HTML data from CHM as a plain text

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install archmage

Install archmage Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install archmage

Install archmage 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 archmage using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install archmage

How To Uninstall archmage on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove archmage

Uninstall archmage And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove archmage

Remove archmage Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge archmage

Remove archmage configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge archmage

Dependencies

archmage have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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