How To Install clang-format on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-format
on Kali Linux.
What is clang-format
clang-format is:
Clang-format is both a library and a stand-alone tool with the goal of automatically reformatting C++ sources files according to configurable style guides. To do so, clang-format uses Clang’s Lexer to transform an input file into a token stream and then changes all the whitespace around those tokens. The goal is for clang-format to both serve both as a user tool (ideally with powerful IDE integrations) and part of other refactoring tools, e.g. to do a reformatting of all the lines changed during a renaming.
This is a dependency package providing the clang format tool.
There are three methods to install clang-format
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 clang-format Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install clang-format
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install clang-format Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install clang-format
using apt
by running the following command:
Install clang-format 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.
After updating apt database, We can install clang-format
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall clang-format on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the clang-format
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall clang-format And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clang-format
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove clang-format Configurations and Data
To remove clang-format
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove clang-format configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clang-format
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
clang-format have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-format
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.