How To Install ant-optional on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ant-optional
on Kali Linux.
What is ant-optional
ant-optional is:
Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for instance C or C++ applications. More generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks.
This package contains the optional tasks libraries.
There are three methods to install ant-optional
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 ant-optional Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ant-optional
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ant-optional
Install ant-optional Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ant-optional
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ant-optional
Install ant-optional 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 ant-optional
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ant-optional
How To Uninstall ant-optional on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ant-optional
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ant-optional
Uninstall ant-optional And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ant-optional
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ant-optional
Remove ant-optional Configurations and Data
To remove ant-optional
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ant-optional
Remove ant-optional configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ant-optional
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ant-optional
Dependencies
ant-optional have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ant-optional
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.