How To Install doxygen-doxyparse on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-doxyparse on Kali Linux. doxygen-doxyparse is multi-language source code parser based on Doxygen

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen-doxyparse on Kali Linux.

What is doxygen-doxyparse

doxygen-doxyparse is:

Doxygen is a documentation system for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL and to some extent PHP, C#, and D. Doxyparse builds on doxygen’s great source code parsing infrastructure and provides a command-line tool that can be used to obtain information from source code, such as:

  • which functions/methods and variables/attributes a module/class contains
  • which functions/methods calls/uses which functions/methods/variables
  • etc

doxyparses’s main goal is to be used by higher-level source code analysis tools.

This package contains doxyparse binary, a source code parser based on Doxygen

There are three methods to install doxygen-doxyparse 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 doxygen-doxyparse Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install doxygen-doxyparse

Install doxygen-doxyparse Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install doxygen-doxyparse

Install doxygen-doxyparse 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 doxygen-doxyparse using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install doxygen-doxyparse

How To Uninstall doxygen-doxyparse on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the doxygen-doxyparse package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove doxygen-doxyparse

Uninstall doxygen-doxyparse And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doxygen-doxyparse

Remove doxygen-doxyparse Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge doxygen-doxyparse

Remove doxygen-doxyparse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doxygen-doxyparse

Dependencies

doxygen-doxyparse have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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