How To Install ducktype on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ducktype on Kali Linux. ducktype is Command-line tool for Ducktype, a lightweight documentation syntax

Introduction

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

What is ducktype

ducktype is:

Ducktype is a lightweight non-XML syntax for Mallard, a topic-oriented markup language for help files. Mallard is primarily used in GNOME help.

This package contains the ducktype command-line tool, which can be used to convert Ducktype documents into the Mallard XML format for further processing by the tools and stylesheets in the yelp-tools and yelp-xsl packages.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ducktype

Install ducktype Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ducktype

Install ducktype 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 ducktype using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ducktype

How To Uninstall ducktype on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ducktype

Uninstall ducktype And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ducktype

Remove ducktype Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ducktype

Remove ducktype configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ducktype

Dependencies

ducktype have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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