How To Install icu-devtools on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icu-devtools on Kali Linux.

What is icu-devtools

icu-devtools is:

ICU is a C++ and C library that provides robust and full-featured Unicode and locale support. This package contains programs used to manipulate data files found in the ICU sources and is a dependency of libicu-dev. End users would generally not need to install this package.

There are three methods to install icu-devtools 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 icu-devtools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install icu-devtools

Install icu-devtools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install icu-devtools

Install icu-devtools 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 icu-devtools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icu-devtools

How To Uninstall icu-devtools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the icu-devtools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icu-devtools

Uninstall icu-devtools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icu-devtools

Remove icu-devtools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge icu-devtools

Remove icu-devtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icu-devtools

Dependencies

icu-devtools have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libicu67
• libstdc++6

References

• icu-devtools website

Summary

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