How To Install gauche-gdbm on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install gauche-gdbm on Kali Linux. gauche-gdbm is gdbm binding for Gauche

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gauche-gdbm on Kali Linux.

What is gauche-gdbm

gauche-gdbm is:

Gauche is a Scheme implementation developed to be a handy script interpreter, which allows programmers and system administrators to write small to large scripts for their daily chores. Quick startup, built-in system interface, native multilingual support are some of the author’s goals.

This package contains GDBM binding modules for Gauche.

There are three methods to install gauche-gdbm 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 gauche-gdbm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gauche-gdbm

Install gauche-gdbm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gauche-gdbm

Install gauche-gdbm 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 gauche-gdbm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gauche-gdbm

How To Uninstall gauche-gdbm on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gauche-gdbm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gauche-gdbm

Uninstall gauche-gdbm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gauche-gdbm

Remove gauche-gdbm Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gauche-gdbm

Remove gauche-gdbm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gauche-gdbm

Dependencies

gauche-gdbm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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