How To Install flickcurl-utils on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flickcurl-utils on Kali Linux.
What is flickcurl-utils
flickcurl-utils is:
Flickcurl is a C library for the Flickr API, handling creating the requests, signing, token management, calling the API, marshalling request parameters and decoding responses. The library now supports 100% of the 2008-01-11 version of the API, including the functions for photo uploading, browsing, searching, adding and editing comments, groups, notes, photosets, categories, activity, blogs, favorites, places, tags and photo metadata. It also includes a program flickrdf to turn photo metadata, tags and machine tags into RDF descriptions of photos and tags.
Support for the Flickr API in these programs is through the libflickcurl library.
There are three methods to install flickcurl-utils 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 flickcurl-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install flickcurl-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flickcurl-utilsInstall flickcurl-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install flickcurl-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flickcurl-utilsInstall flickcurl-utils 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install flickcurl-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flickcurl-utilsHow To Uninstall flickcurl-utils on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the flickcurl-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flickcurl-utilsUninstall flickcurl-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flickcurl-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flickcurl-utilsRemove flickcurl-utils Configurations and Data
To remove flickcurl-utils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flickcurl-utilsRemove flickcurl-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flickcurl-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flickcurl-utilsDependencies
flickcurl-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flickcurl-utils package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.