How To Install cruft-ng on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cruft-ng on Kali Linux.
What is cruft-ng
cruft-ng is:
cruft-ng is a program to look over your system for anything that shouldn’t be there, but is; or for anything that should be there, but isn’t.
It bases most of its results on dpkg’s & mlocate’s databases.
There are three methods to install cruft-ng 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 cruft-ng Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cruft-ng using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cruft-ngInstall cruft-ng Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cruft-ng using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cruft-ngInstall cruft-ng 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cruft-ng using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cruft-ngHow To Uninstall cruft-ng on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cruft-ng package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cruft-ngUninstall cruft-ng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cruft-ng and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cruft-ngRemove cruft-ng Configurations and Data
To remove cruft-ng configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cruft-ngRemove cruft-ng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cruft-ng configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cruft-ngDependencies
cruft-ng have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cruft-ng package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
