How To Install presage on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is presage

presage is:

Presage is an intelligent predictive text entry platform.

This package contains the tools required to generate custom
statistical data used by the presage predictive text engine to
generate predictions.

This package also contains simple demonstration programs and simulator.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install presage

Install presage Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install presage

Install presage 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 presage using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install presage

How To Uninstall presage on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove presage

Uninstall presage And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove presage

Remove presage Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge presage

Remove presage configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge presage

Dependencies

presage have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• presage website

Summary

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