How To Install autogen on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen on Kali Linux.
What is autogen
autogen is:
AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized.
Included with AutoGen is a tool that virtually eliminates the hassle of processing options, keeping usage text up to date and so on. This tool allows you to specify several program attributes, innumerable options and option attributes, then it produces all the code necessary to parse and handle the command line and initialization file options.
This package contains the development tools. libopts25-dev contains the static libraries and header files. libopts25 contains the shared libraries. autogen-doc contains the PostScript and HTML documentation.
There are three methods to install autogen 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 autogen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install autogen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install autogenInstall autogen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install autogen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install autogenInstall autogen 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install autogen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install autogenHow To Uninstall autogen on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the autogen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove autogenUninstall autogen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall autogen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove autogenRemove autogen Configurations and Data
To remove autogen configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge autogenRemove autogen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove autogen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autogenDependencies
autogen have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install autogen package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.