How To Install swatch on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is swatch

swatch is:

Swatch is designed to monitor system activity. It reads a configuration
file which contains pattern(s) to look for and action(s) to perform when
each pattern is found.

A typical action is echoing the matched line in a variety of colours and
formats including reverse video, bold, underline, and normal, which swatch
knows how to do internally. Other actions include sending mail or
executing an arbitrary program on the line.

Swatch is written in Perl and uses Perl regular expressions for line
matching.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install swatch

Install swatch Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install swatch

Install swatch 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 swatch using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install swatch

How To Uninstall swatch on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove swatch

Uninstall swatch And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove swatch

Remove swatch Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge swatch

Remove swatch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swatch

Dependencies

swatch have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• swatch website

Summary

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