How To Install barbican-api on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install barbican-api on Kali Linux. barbican-api is OpenStack Key Management Service - API Server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install barbican-api on Kali Linux.

What is barbican-api

barbican-api is:

The Barbican project provides services for secure storage, provisioning and management of sensitive client secret information such as encryption keys. It is aims at being useful for all environments, including large ephemeral Clouds.

This package contains the Barbican API Server.

There are three methods to install barbican-api 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 barbican-api Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install barbican-api

Install barbican-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install barbican-api

Install barbican-api 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 barbican-api using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install barbican-api

How To Uninstall barbican-api on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the barbican-api package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove barbican-api

Uninstall barbican-api And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove barbican-api

Remove barbican-api Configurations and Data

To remove barbican-api configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge barbican-api

Remove barbican-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge barbican-api

Dependencies

barbican-api have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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