How To Install cl-cffi on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-cffi on Kali Linux.
What is cl-cffi
cl-cffi is:
CFFI, the Common Foreign Function Interface, purports to be a portable foreign function interface for Common Lisp. The CFFI library is composed of a Lisp-implementation-specific backend in the CFFI-SYS package, and a portable frontend in the CFFI package.
The CFFI-SYS backend package defines a low-level interface to the native FFI support in the Lisp implementation. It offers operators for allocating and dereferencing foreign memory, calling foreign functions, and loading shared libraries. The CFFI frontend provides a declarative interface for defining foreign functions, structures, typedefs, enumerated types. It is implemented in portable ANSI CL making use of the low-level operators exported by CFFI-SYS.
A UFFI compatibility layer is also being developed.
There are three methods to install cl-cffi 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 cl-cffi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cl-cffi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cl-cffiInstall cl-cffi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cl-cffi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cl-cffiInstall cl-cffi 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 cl-cffi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cl-cffiHow To Uninstall cl-cffi on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cl-cffi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cl-cffiUninstall cl-cffi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cl-cffi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-cffiRemove cl-cffi Configurations and Data
To remove cl-cffi configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cl-cffiRemove cl-cffi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cl-cffi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-cffiDependencies
cl-cffi have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-cffi package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.