How To Install gnu-standards on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnu-standards on Kali Linux.

What is gnu-standards

gnu-standards is:

This package contains two pieces of documentation from the GNU project: ‘GNU Coding Standards’, and ‘Information for Maintainers of GNU Software’.

These are useful to refer to if you are writing or maintaining software for GNU, but could also be helpful as guidelines for other projects.

There are three methods to install gnu-standards 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 gnu-standards Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnu-standards

Install gnu-standards Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gnu-standards

Install gnu-standards 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 gnu-standards using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnu-standards

How To Uninstall gnu-standards on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gnu-standards package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnu-standards

Uninstall gnu-standards And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnu-standards

Remove gnu-standards Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gnu-standards

Remove gnu-standards configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnu-standards

Dependencies

gnu-standards have the following dependencies:

References

• gnu-standards website

Summary

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