How To Install beav on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install beav on Kali Linux. beav is binary editor and viewer

Introduction

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

What is beav

beav is:

beav (Binary Editor And Viewer) is an editor for binary files containing arbitrary data. Text file editors, on the other hand, expect the files they edit to contain textual data, and/or to be formatted in a certain way (e.g. lines of printable characters delimited by newline characters).

With beav, you can edit a file in HEX, ASCII, EBCDIC, OCTAL, DECIMAL, and BINARY. You can display but not edit data in FLOAT mode. You can search or search and replace in any of these modes. Data can be displayed in BYTE, WORD, or DOUBLE WORD formats. While displaying WORDS or DOUBLE WORDS the data can be displayed in INTEL’s or MOTOROLA’s byte ordering. Data of any length can be inserted at any point in the file. The source of this data can be the keyboard, another buffer, or a file. Any data that is being displayed can be sent to a printer in the displayed format. Files that are bigger than memory can be handled.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install beav

Install beav Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install beav

Install beav 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 beav using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install beav

How To Uninstall beav on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove beav

Uninstall beav And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove beav

Remove beav Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge beav

Remove beav configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge beav

Dependencies

beav have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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