Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhelp on Kali Linux.
What is dhelp
dhelp is:
Read all documentation with a WWW browser. dhelp builds an index of
all installed HTML documentation. You don’t need a WWW server to read
the documentation. dhelp offers a very fast search in the HTML documents.
You can access the online help system with the dhelp program or with
your browser. The URL to point your browser at is (if you have a WWW
server installed) http://localhost/doc/HTML/index.html , else (if you
do not) file://localhost/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html.
There are three methods to install dhelp 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 dhelp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install dhelp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dhelpInstall dhelp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dhelp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dhelpInstall dhelp 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install dhelp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dhelpHow To Uninstall dhelp on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the dhelp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dhelpUninstall dhelp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dhelp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dhelpRemove dhelp Configurations and Data
To remove dhelp configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dhelpRemove dhelp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dhelp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dhelpDependencies
dhelp have the following dependencies:
- doc-base
- ghostscript
- libcgi-pm-perl
- libdata-page-perl
- libhtml-parser-perl
- liblocale-gettext-perl
- libtemplate-perl
- liburi-perl
- poppler-utils
- ruby
- ruby-debian
- ruby-gettext
- sensible-utils
- swish++
- ucf
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhelp package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
