How To Install pound on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is pound

pound is:

Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pound

Install pound Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pound

Install pound 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 pound using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pound

How To Uninstall pound on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove pound

Uninstall pound And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pound

Remove pound Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge pound

Remove pound configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pound

Dependencies

pound have the following dependencies:

• init-system-helpers
• lsb-base
• sysuser-helper
• libc6
• libmbedcrypto3
• libmbedtls12
• libmbedx509-0
• libnanomsg5
• libpcre3
• libyaml-0-2

References

• pound website

Summary

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