How To Install libtinfo5 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtinfo5
on Kali Linux.
What is libtinfo5
libtinfo5 is:
The ncurses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization.
This package contains the legacy version of the shared low-level terminfo library.
There are three methods to install libtinfo5
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 libtinfo5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtinfo5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtinfo5
Install libtinfo5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtinfo5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtinfo5
Install libtinfo5 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 libtinfo5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtinfo5
How To Uninstall libtinfo5 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libtinfo5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtinfo5
Uninstall libtinfo5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtinfo5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtinfo5
Remove libtinfo5 Configurations and Data
To remove libtinfo5
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtinfo5
Remove libtinfo5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtinfo5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtinfo5
Dependencies
libtinfo5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtinfo5
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.