How To Install esnacc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install esnacc on Kali Linux. esnacc is ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler

Introduction

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

What is esnacc

esnacc is:

esnacc is short for “Enhanced Sample Neufeld ASN.1 to C Compiler” and ASN.1 stands for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ITU-T X.208/ISO 8824). esnacc supports a subset of ASN.1 1988.

Given an ASN.1 source file(s) esnacc can produce:

  1. C routines for BER encoding, decoding, printing and freeing.
  2. C++ routines for BER encoding, decoding, and printing.
  3. A type table that can be used with C driver routines for BER encoding, decoding, printing and freeing.

If you want to build esnacc based applications, you want to install the libesnacc-dev package, too. Your application will then depend on the esnacc libraries, you find in the libesnacc180 package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install esnacc

Install esnacc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install esnacc

Install esnacc 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 esnacc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install esnacc

How To Uninstall esnacc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove esnacc

Uninstall esnacc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove esnacc

Remove esnacc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge esnacc

Remove esnacc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge esnacc

Dependencies

esnacc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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