How To Install aidl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is aidl

aidl is:

aidl is a utility to generate Java and/or C++ code from Android’s Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL). AIDL is similar to other IDLs you might have worked with. It allows you to define the programming interface that both the client and service agree upon in order to communicate with each other using interprocess communication (IPC). On Android, one process cannot normally access the memory of another process. So to talk, they need to decompose their objects into primitives that the operating system can understand, and marshall the objects across that boundary for you. The code to do that marshalling is tedious to write, so Android handles it for you with AIDL. This package provides two tools:

• “aidl” which generates Java bindings.
• “aidl-cpp” which generates C++ bindings.

For more info, see: https://developer.android.com/guide/components/aidl.html

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install aidl

Install aidl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install aidl

Install aidl 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 aidl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aidl

How To Uninstall aidl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove aidl

Uninstall aidl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aidl

Remove aidl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge aidl

Remove aidl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aidl

Dependencies

aidl have the following dependencies:

• android-libbase

References

• aidl website

Summary

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