How To Install docx2txt on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install docx2txt on Kali Linux.

What is docx2txt

docx2txt is:

This tool attempts to generate equivalent plain text files from Microsoft .docx documents, preserving some formatting and document information (which MS text conversion drops) along with appropriate character conversions for a good (ascii or utf-8) text experience. It is a platform independent solution consisting of (core) Perl and (wrapper) Unix/Windows shell scripts and a configuration file to control the output text appearance to a fair extent. It can very conveniently be used to build a Web-based docx document conversion service. Some Makefiles and Windows batch files are provided for easy installation of the scripts. With unzippers like CakeCmd that can deal with corrupt Zip archives, this tool can extract text from corrupt docx documents in many cases, where MS Word fails to even open them.

There are three methods to install docx2txt 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 docx2txt Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install docx2txt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install docx2txt

Install docx2txt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install docx2txt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install docx2txt

Install docx2txt 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 docx2txt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install docx2txt

How To Uninstall docx2txt on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the docx2txt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove docx2txt

Uninstall docx2txt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall docx2txt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove docx2txt

Remove docx2txt Configurations and Data

To remove docx2txt configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge docx2txt

Remove docx2txt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove docx2txt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge docx2txt

Dependencies

docx2txt have the following dependencies:

• unzip

References

• docx2txt website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install docx2txt package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.