How To Install etc1tool on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install etc1tool on Kali Linux.

What is etc1tool

etc1tool is:

etc1tool is a command line utility that lets you encode PNG images to the ETC1 compression standard and decode ETC1 compressed images back to PNG. It is part of the Android SDK for working with media files for game apps. The standard for the ETC1 texture format is here: http://www.khronos.org/registry/gles/extensions/OES/OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture.txt

There are three methods to install etc1tool 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 etc1tool Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install etc1tool using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install etc1tool

Install etc1tool Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install etc1tool using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install etc1tool

Install etc1tool 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 etc1tool using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install etc1tool

How To Uninstall etc1tool on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the etc1tool package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove etc1tool

Uninstall etc1tool And Its Dependencies

To uninstall etc1tool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove etc1tool

Remove etc1tool Configurations and Data

To remove etc1tool configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge etc1tool

Remove etc1tool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove etc1tool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge etc1tool

Dependencies

etc1tool have the following dependencies:

• android-libetc1
• libc6
• libpng16-16
• libstdc++6

References

• etc1tool website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install etc1tool package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.