How To Install libbz2-ocaml on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbz2-ocaml on Kali Linux. libbz2-ocaml is OCaml bindings for the bzip2 compression library (runtime)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbz2-ocaml on Kali Linux.

What is libbz2-ocaml

libbz2-ocaml is:

CamlBZ2 provides OCaml bindings for libbz2 (AKA bzip2), a popular compression library which typically compresses better (i.e., smaller resulting files) than gzip.

Using CamlBZ2 you can read and write compressed “files”, where files can be anything offering an in_channel/out_channel abstraction (files, sockets, …).

Also, with CamlBZ2 you can compress and decompress strings in memory using the bzip2 compression algorithm.

This package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.

There are three methods to install libbz2-ocaml 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 libbz2-ocaml Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libbz2-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbz2-ocaml

Install libbz2-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libbz2-ocaml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libbz2-ocaml

Install libbz2-ocaml 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 libbz2-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbz2-ocaml

How To Uninstall libbz2-ocaml on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libbz2-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbz2-ocaml

Uninstall libbz2-ocaml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbz2-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbz2-ocaml

Remove libbz2-ocaml Configurations and Data

To remove libbz2-ocaml configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbz2-ocaml

Remove libbz2-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libbz2-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbz2-ocaml

Dependencies

libbz2-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbz2-ocaml package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.