How To Install gawk-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gawk-doc on Kali Linux.

What is gawk-doc

gawk-doc is:

`awk’ is a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them.

Gawk is the GNU Project’s implementation of the AWK programming language. This package contains edition 4 of GAWK: Effective AWK Programming: A User's Guide for GNU Awk' and edition 1.3 of TCP/IP Internetworking With Gawk'.

There are three methods to install gawk-doc 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 gawk-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gawk-doc

Install gawk-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gawk-doc

Install gawk-doc 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 gawk-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gawk-doc

How To Uninstall gawk-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gawk-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gawk-doc

Uninstall gawk-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gawk-doc

Remove gawk-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gawk-doc

Remove gawk-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gawk-doc

Dependencies

gawk-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• gawk-doc website

Summary

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