How To Install libspice-server-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspice-server-dev on Kali Linux. libspice-server-dev is Header files and development documentation for spice-server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspice-server-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libspice-server-dev

libspice-server-dev is:

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows you to view a computing ‘desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

This package contains the header files, static libraries and development documentation for spice-server.

There are three methods to install libspice-server-dev 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 libspice-server-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libspice-server-dev

Install libspice-server-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libspice-server-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libspice-server-dev

Install libspice-server-dev 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 libspice-server-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libspice-server-dev

How To Uninstall libspice-server-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libspice-server-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libspice-server-dev

Uninstall libspice-server-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspice-server-dev

Remove libspice-server-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libspice-server-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libspice-server-dev

Remove libspice-server-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libspice-server-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libspice-server-dev

Dependencies

libspice-server-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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