How To Install cereal on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cereal
on Kali Linux.
What is cereal
cereal is:
cereal provides a framework to easily set up and maintain automated, timestamped logs of serial lines, while simultaneously allowing end user access to them. This is probably most useful for providing automated, logged access to remote serial consoles.
cereal can control an arbitrary number of independently monitored and logged lines. Direct access to the monitored lines is allowed only to a specific user (who doesn’t necessarily otherwise have access to the direct serial line), but logs can be made available to any group. Logs are rotated automatically and their total space can be limited in size.
There are three methods to install cereal
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 cereal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cereal
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cereal
Install cereal Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cereal
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cereal
Install cereal 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 cereal
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cereal
How To Uninstall cereal on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cereal
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cereal
Uninstall cereal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cereal
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cereal
Remove cereal Configurations and Data
To remove cereal
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cereal
Remove cereal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cereal
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cereal
Dependencies
cereal have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cereal
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.