How To Install guile-json on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is guile-json

guile-json is:

Guile-json supports parsing and building JSON documents according to the http://json.org specification. These are the main features:

• Strictly compiles to the http://json.org specification.
• Build JSON documents programmatically via macros.
• Unicode support for strings.
• Allow JSON pretty printing.

There are three methods to install guile-json 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-json 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-json using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install guile-json

Install guile-json Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install guile-json

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

sudo aptitude -y install guile-json

How To Uninstall guile-json on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove guile-json

Uninstall guile-json And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove guile-json

Remove guile-json Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge guile-json

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

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

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

Dependencies

guile-json have the following dependencies:

• guile-3.0

References

• guile-json website

Summary

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