How To Install swaks on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is swaks

swaks is:

swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) is a command-line tool written in Perl
for testing SMTP setups; it supports STARTTLS and SMTP AUTH (PLAIN,
LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, SPA, and DIGEST-MD5). swaks allows one to stop the
SMTP dialog at any stage, e.g to check RCPT TO: without actually
sending a mail.

If you are spending too much time iterating “telnet foo.example 25”
swaks is for you.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install swaks

Install swaks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install swaks

Install swaks 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 swaks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install swaks

How To Uninstall swaks on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove swaks

Uninstall swaks And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove swaks

Remove swaks Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge swaks

Remove swaks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swaks

Dependencies

swaks have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• swaks website

Summary

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