Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clitest
on Kali Linux.
What is clitest
clitest is:
Clitest is a portable POSIX shell script that performs automatic
testing in Unix command lines. This script was carefully coded to
be portable between POSIX shells.
It’s the same concept as in Python’s doctest module: you document
both the commands and their expected output, using the familiar
interactive prompt format, and a specialized tool tests them.
The clitest command searches for pieces of text that look like
interactive Unix command lines, and then executes those command
lines to verify that they work exactly as shown.
There are three methods to install clitest
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 clitest Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clitest
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clitest
Install clitest Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clitest
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clitest
Install clitest 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 clitest
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clitest
How To Uninstall clitest on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the clitest
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clitest
Uninstall clitest And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clitest
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clitest
Remove clitest Configurations and Data
To remove clitest
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clitest
Remove clitest configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clitest
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clitest
Dependencies
clitest have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clitest
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.