How To Install doodled on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install doodled on Kali Linux. doodled is Desktop Search Engine (daemon)

Introduction

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

What is doodled

doodled is:

It searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on meta-data. It extracts file-format specific meta-data using libextractor and builds a suffix tree to index the files. The index can then be searched rapidly. It is similar to locate, but can take advantage of information such as ID3 tags. It is possible to do full-text indexing using the appropriate libextractor plugins. It also supports using FAM to keep the database up-to-date.

This is the daemon to keep the doodle database automagically up-to-date.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install doodled

Install doodled Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install doodled

Install doodled 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 doodled using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install doodled

How To Uninstall doodled on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove doodled

Uninstall doodled And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doodled

Remove doodled Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge doodled

Remove doodled configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doodled

Dependencies

doodled have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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