How To Install kaboxer on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kaboxer
on Kali Linux.
What is kaboxer
kaboxer is:
Built for Kali Linux (and other Debian-based) systems, Kaboxer is a framework providing seamless integrations between applications shipped in containers and the host system.
It allows shipping applications that are hard to package properly or that need to run in isolation from the rest of the system.
The “kaboxer” command line tool can be used to:
- build container images
- retrieve container images
- run applications out of those containers
- integrate those applications in the host system
There are three methods to install kaboxer
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 kaboxer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kaboxer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kaboxer
Install kaboxer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kaboxer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kaboxer
Install kaboxer 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 kaboxer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kaboxer
How To Uninstall kaboxer on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kaboxer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kaboxer
Uninstall kaboxer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kaboxer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kaboxer
Remove kaboxer Configurations and Data
To remove kaboxer
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kaboxer
Remove kaboxer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kaboxer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kaboxer
Dependencies
kaboxer have the following dependencies:
- docker.io
- libfile-copy-recursive-perl
- libyaml-libyaml-perl
- sudo
- python3-docker
- python3-dockerpty
- python3-git
- python3-jinja2
- python3-packaging
- python3-requests
- python3-tabulate
- python3-yaml
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kaboxer
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.