How To Install erlang-observer on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-observer
on Kali Linux.
What is erlang-observer
erlang-observer is:
The OBSERVER application contains tools for tracing and investigation of distributed systems. They include etop - a tool for presenting information about Erlang processes, and crashdump_viewer - a HTML based tool for browsing Erlang crashdumps.
There are three methods to install erlang-observer
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 erlang-observer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install erlang-observer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install erlang-observer
Install erlang-observer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install erlang-observer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install erlang-observer
Install erlang-observer 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 erlang-observer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install erlang-observer
How To Uninstall erlang-observer on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the erlang-observer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove erlang-observer
Uninstall erlang-observer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall erlang-observer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove erlang-observer
Remove erlang-observer Configurations and Data
To remove erlang-observer
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge erlang-observer
Remove erlang-observer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove erlang-observer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge erlang-observer
Dependencies
erlang-observer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-observer
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.