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.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install clang-format

Install clang-format Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install clang-format

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.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install clang-format

How To Uninstall clang-format on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the clang-format package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove clang-format

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:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clang-format

Remove clang-format Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge clang-format

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:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clang-format

Dependencies

clang-format have the following dependencies:

• clang-format-11

References

• clang-format website

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.