How To Install alice on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is alice

alice is:

Alice is an acronym for “Altogether Lovely Internet Chatting
Experience” which is an IRC client that is viewed in the web
browser. Alice runs in the background maintaining connections
and collecting messages. When a browser connects, it will
display the 100 most recent messages for each channel, and
update with any new messages as they arrive.

Alice also logs messages to an SQLite database. These logs
are searchable through the web interface.

For desktop notifications install libdesktop-notify-perl.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install alice

Install alice Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alice

Install alice 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 alice using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alice

How To Uninstall alice on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove alice

Uninstall alice And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alice

Remove alice Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge alice

Remove alice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alice

Dependencies

alice have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libany-moose-perl
• libanyevent-dbi-perl
• libanyevent-http-perl
• libanyevent-irc-perl
• libanyevent-perl
• libdbd-sqlite3-perl
• libfile-sharedir-perl
• libirc-formatting-html-perl
• libjson-perl
• liblist-moreutils-perl
• libplack-middleware-session-perl
• libplack-perl
• libsql-abstract-perl
• libtext-microtemplate-perl
• libtry-tiny-perl
• twiggy

References

• alice website

Summary

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