How To Install libcapstone3 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcapstone3
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcapstone3
libcapstone3 is:
Capstone is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework.
Features:
- Support hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (aka ARMv8), Mips, PowerPC & Intel.
- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.
- Provide details on disassembled instructions (called “decomposer” by some others).
- Provide some semantics of the disassembled instruction, such as list of implicit registers read & written.
- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Java, OCaml and Python ready to use and Ruby, C#, GO & Vala available on git repos.
- Native support for Windows & *nix (with OS X, Linux, *BSD & Solaris confirmed).
- Thread-safe by design.
- Special support for embedding into firmware or OS kernel.
- Distributed under the open source BSD license.
There are three methods to install libcapstone3
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcapstone3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcapstone3
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcapstone3
Install libcapstone3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcapstone3
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcapstone3
Install libcapstone3 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libcapstone3
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcapstone3
How To Uninstall libcapstone3 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcapstone3
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcapstone3
Uninstall libcapstone3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcapstone3
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcapstone3
Remove libcapstone3 Configurations and Data
To remove libcapstone3
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcapstone3
Remove libcapstone3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcapstone3
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcapstone3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcapstone3
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.