How To Install guile-gcrypt on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-gcrypt on Kali Linux. guile-gcrypt is gcrypt bindings for guile

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-gcrypt on Kali Linux.

What is guile-gcrypt

guile-gcrypt is:

Guile-Gcrypt provides a Guile 2.x interface to a subset of the GNU Libgcrypt crytographic library, which is itself used by the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).

Guile-Gcrypt provides modules for cryptographic hash functions, message authentication codes (MAC), public-key crytography, strong randomness, and more. It is implemented using the foreign function interface (FFI) of Guile.

There are three methods to install guile-gcrypt 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 guile-gcrypt Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install guile-gcrypt

Install guile-gcrypt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install guile-gcrypt

Install guile-gcrypt 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 guile-gcrypt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install guile-gcrypt

How To Uninstall guile-gcrypt on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the guile-gcrypt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove guile-gcrypt

Uninstall guile-gcrypt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove guile-gcrypt

Remove guile-gcrypt Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge guile-gcrypt

Remove guile-gcrypt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guile-gcrypt

Dependencies

guile-gcrypt have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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