How To Install libhogweed6 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhogweed6 on Kali Linux.

What is libhogweed6

libhogweed6 is:

Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, …), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.

It tries to solve a problem of providing a common set of cryptographic algorithms for higher-level applications by implementing a context-independent set of cryptographic algorithms. In that light, Nettle doesn’t do any memory allocation or I/O, it simply provides the cryptographic algorithms for the application to use in any environment and in any way it needs.

This package contains the asymmetric cryptographic algorithms, which, require the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library (libgmp) for their large integer computations.

There are three methods to install libhogweed6 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 libhogweed6 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libhogweed6 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libhogweed6

Install libhogweed6 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libhogweed6 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libhogweed6

Install libhogweed6 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 libhogweed6 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libhogweed6

How To Uninstall libhogweed6 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libhogweed6 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libhogweed6

Uninstall libhogweed6 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libhogweed6 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhogweed6

Remove libhogweed6 Configurations and Data

To remove libhogweed6 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libhogweed6

Remove libhogweed6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libhogweed6 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhogweed6

Dependencies

libhogweed6 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgmp10

References

• libhogweed6 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhogweed6 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.