How To Install grfcodec on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grfcodec on Kali Linux.

What is grfcodec

grfcodec is:

This package provides the grfcodec, grfdiff, grfmerge and nforenum commands which can be used to work with the GRF used by the Transport Tycoon Deluxe, TTDPatch and OpenTTD games.

There are three methods to install grfcodec 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 grfcodec Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install grfcodec

Install grfcodec Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install grfcodec using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install grfcodec

Install grfcodec 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 grfcodec using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install grfcodec

How To Uninstall grfcodec on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the grfcodec package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove grfcodec

Uninstall grfcodec And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove grfcodec

Remove grfcodec Configurations and Data

To remove grfcodec configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge grfcodec

Remove grfcodec configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grfcodec

Dependencies

grfcodec have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libpng16-16
• libstdc++6

References

• grfcodec website

Summary

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