How To Install sip5-tools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip5-tools
on Kali Linux.
What is sip5-tools
sip5-tools is:
SIP is a collection of tools that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C and C++ libraries.
This package contains the following command line tools:
- sip-build
- sip-distinfo
- sip-install
- sip-module
- sip-sdist
- sip-wheel
- sip5 (legacy)
Please depend on sip-tools instead of sip5-tools if your package does not use the legacy sip5 tool.
There are three methods to install sip5-tools
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 sip5-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sip5-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sip5-tools
Install sip5-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sip5-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sip5-tools
Install sip5-tools 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 sip5-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sip5-tools
How To Uninstall sip5-tools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the sip5-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sip5-tools
Uninstall sip5-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sip5-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sip5-tools
Remove sip5-tools Configurations and Data
To remove sip5-tools
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sip5-tools
Remove sip5-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sip5-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sip5-tools
Dependencies
sip5-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip5-tools
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.