How To Install augeas-lenses on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install augeas-lenses on Kali Linux.

What is augeas-lenses

augeas-lenses is:

Augeas parses configuration files described in lenses into a tree structure,
which it exposes through its public API. Changes made through the API are
written back to the initially read files.

Lenses are the building blocks of the file <-> tree transformation; they
combine parsing a file and building the tree (the get transformation), with
turning the tree back into an (updated) file (the put transformation).

The transformation works very hard to preserve comments and formatting
details. It is controlled by “lens’’ definitions that describe the file
format and the transformation into a tree. This package includes the official
set of lenses.

There are three methods to install augeas-lenses 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 augeas-lenses Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install augeas-lenses

Install augeas-lenses Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install augeas-lenses

Install augeas-lenses 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 augeas-lenses using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install augeas-lenses

How To Uninstall augeas-lenses on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the augeas-lenses package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove augeas-lenses

Uninstall augeas-lenses And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove augeas-lenses

Remove augeas-lenses Configurations and Data

To remove augeas-lenses configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge augeas-lenses

Remove augeas-lenses configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge augeas-lenses

Dependencies

augeas-lenses have the following dependencies:

References

• augeas-lenses website

Summary

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