How To Install canid on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install canid
on Kali Linux.
What is canid
canid is:
canid the Caching Additional Network Information Daemon provides a simple HTTP API for getting information about Internet names and numbers from a given vantage point.
canid looks up BGP AS number and country code associated with the smallest prefix announced which contains the address in the RIPEstat database. It caches the results by prefix in memory. It returns a JSON object with four keys. It also looks up the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses associated with a given name. It caches the results by name in memory, and precaches prefix results for a subsequent prefix call.
There are three methods to install canid
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 canid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install canid
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install canid
Install canid Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install canid
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install canid
Install canid 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 canid
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install canid
How To Uninstall canid on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the canid
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove canid
Uninstall canid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall canid
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove canid
Remove canid Configurations and Data
To remove canid
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge canid
Remove canid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove canid
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge canid
Dependencies
canid have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install canid
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.