How To Install dirtbike on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install dirtbike on Kali Linux. dirtbike is turn system-installed Python packages into wheels

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dirtbike on Kali Linux.

What is dirtbike

dirtbike is:

The purpose of this package is to make it easier to devendorize other packages which bundle various upstream packages. An example of this is pip, which bundles a half-dozen or so other upstream packages. In Debian and other distros, such vendoring is frowned upon. To make it easier to devendorize, dirtbike turns installed system packages into wheels, and these wheels can then be used instead of the vendored packages.

There are three methods to install dirtbike 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 dirtbike Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dirtbike

Install dirtbike Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install dirtbike using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install dirtbike

Install dirtbike 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 dirtbike using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dirtbike

How To Uninstall dirtbike on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the dirtbike package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dirtbike

Uninstall dirtbike And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dirtbike

Remove dirtbike Configurations and Data

To remove dirtbike configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dirtbike

Remove dirtbike configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dirtbike

Dependencies

dirtbike have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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