How To Install cpanoutdated on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpanoutdated
on Kali Linux.
What is cpanoutdated
cpanoutdated is:
cpanoutdated prints the list of outdated CPAN modules in your machine. It provides the same feature as ‘CPAN::Shell->r’, but cpan-outdated is much faster and uses less memory. This script can be integrated with the cpanm command.
There are three methods to install cpanoutdated
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 cpanoutdated Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cpanoutdated
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cpanoutdated
Install cpanoutdated Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cpanoutdated
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cpanoutdated
Install cpanoutdated 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 cpanoutdated
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cpanoutdated
How To Uninstall cpanoutdated on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cpanoutdated
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cpanoutdated
Uninstall cpanoutdated And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cpanoutdated
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpanoutdated
Remove cpanoutdated Configurations and Data
To remove cpanoutdated
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cpanoutdated
Remove cpanoutdated configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cpanoutdated
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpanoutdated
Dependencies
cpanoutdated have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpanoutdated
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.