How To Install growlight on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is growlight

growlight is:

Growlight can manipulate both real and virtual (mdadm, device-mapper, and LVM) disks, find bottlenecks in a storage setup, create partitions and filesystems, and prepare fstab files for new installations.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install growlight

Install growlight Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install growlight

Install growlight 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 growlight using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install growlight

How To Uninstall growlight on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove growlight

Uninstall growlight And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove growlight

Remove growlight Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge growlight

Remove growlight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge growlight

Dependencies

growlight have the following dependencies:

• libatasmart4
• libblkid1
• libc6
• libcap2

References

• growlight website

Summary

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