How To Install gir1.2-glib-2.0 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-glib-2.0 on Kali Linux.
What is gir1.2-glib-2.0
gir1.2-glib-2.0 is:
GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection data can be used in several different use cases, for example automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation generation.
GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the introspection data.
This package contains the introspection data for the GLib, GObject, GModule and Gio libraries.
There are three methods to install gir1.2-glib-2.0 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 gir1.2-glib-2.0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-glib-2.0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gir1.2-glib-2.0Install gir1.2-glib-2.0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-glib-2.0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gir1.2-glib-2.0Install gir1.2-glib-2.0 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 gir1.2-glib-2.0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gir1.2-glib-2.0How To Uninstall gir1.2-glib-2.0 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gir1.2-glib-2.0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gir1.2-glib-2.0Uninstall gir1.2-glib-2.0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gir1.2-glib-2.0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gir1.2-glib-2.0Remove gir1.2-glib-2.0 Configurations and Data
To remove gir1.2-glib-2.0 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gir1.2-glib-2.0Remove gir1.2-glib-2.0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gir1.2-glib-2.0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gir1.2-glib-2.0Dependencies
gir1.2-glib-2.0 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-glib-2.0 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
