How To Install apt-cudf on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-cudf on Kali Linux.

What is apt-cudf

apt-cudf is:

apt-cudf provides integration among the APT package manager and CUDF solvers, allowing APT to rely on external (CUDF-based) dependency solvers to plan package installation, upgrade, and removal.

CUDF is a distribution-independent, standard format to describe dependency solving scenarios, as faced by package managers in popular package-based GNU/Linux distributions. APT is a well-known package manager for Debian-based distributions, which is able to delegate dependency solving to external solvers, by the means of the External Dependency Solving Protocol (EDSP).

apt-cudf provides the glue between the EDSP protocol and CUDF solvers, enabling any installed CUDF solver to be used as an external solver for APT.

Several CUDF solvers are available in Debian. They all provide the cudf-solver virtual package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install apt-cudf

Install apt-cudf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install apt-cudf

Install apt-cudf 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 apt-cudf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apt-cudf

How To Uninstall apt-cudf on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the apt-cudf package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove apt-cudf

Uninstall apt-cudf And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt-cudf

Remove apt-cudf Configurations and Data

To remove apt-cudf configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge apt-cudf

Remove apt-cudf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt-cudf

Dependencies

apt-cudf have the following dependencies:

• aspcud
• perl

References

• apt-cudf website

Summary

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