How To Install foxeye on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install foxeye on Kali Linux. foxeye is Universal modular network agent - binary package

Introduction

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

What is foxeye

foxeye is:

FoxEye is a multipurpose generic modular base to create clients or servers for client-server type networks such as IRC, ICQ, etc. All what you need to make an IRC bot or ICQ client is few modules that implement functionality you require. The FoxEye written in pure C with small resource requirements in mind.

This package contains main daemon and few modules. Available modules are: autolog, irc, irc-channel, irc-ctcp, ircd, logs, lua, modes, tcl, ziplink. With this set of modules FoxEye can serve two purposes:

  • IRC bot (similar to Eggdrop);
  • IRC server (ircd, RFC2810…2813 compliant). More purposes are under development now and third-party modules are available to create using foxeye-dev package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install foxeye

Install foxeye Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install foxeye

Install foxeye 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 foxeye using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install foxeye

How To Uninstall foxeye on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove foxeye

Uninstall foxeye And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove foxeye

Remove foxeye Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge foxeye

Remove foxeye configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge foxeye

Dependencies

foxeye have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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