How To Install libais-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libais-tools on Kali Linux. libais-tools is Cli tools for decoding maritime Automatic Identification System messages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libais-tools on Kali Linux.

What is libais-tools

libais-tools is:

There are two interfaces to libais, one high-level iterator based one and a low-level fast C++ only one.

To use the low-level C++ interface directly, you need to handle multi-line messages and padding yourself.

This package installs command line tools.

There are three methods to install libais-tools 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 libais-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libais-tools

Install libais-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libais-tools

Install libais-tools 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 libais-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libais-tools

How To Uninstall libais-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libais-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libais-tools

Uninstall libais-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libais-tools

Remove libais-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libais-tools

Remove libais-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libais-tools

Dependencies

libais-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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