How To Install kyotocabinet-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kyotocabinet-doc on Kali Linux.

What is kyotocabinet-doc

kyotocabinet-doc is:

Kyoto Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key and a value. Each key must be unique within a database. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are organized in hash table or B+ tree.

Kyoto Cabinet runs very fast. For example, elapsed time to store one million records is 0.9 seconds for hash database, and 1.1 seconds for B+ tree database. Moreover, the size of database is very small. For example, overhead for a record is 16 bytes for hash database, and 4 bytes for B+ tree database. Furthermore, scalability of Kyoto Cabinet is great. The database size can be up to 8EB (9.22e18 bytes).

Sponsored by the same company, Kyoto Cabinet is “[a] more powerful and convenient library than Tokyo Cabinet [and] surpasses Tokyo Cabinet in every aspect”.

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install kyotocabinet-doc 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 kyotocabinet-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kyotocabinet-doc

Install kyotocabinet-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kyotocabinet-doc

Install kyotocabinet-doc 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 kyotocabinet-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kyotocabinet-doc

How To Uninstall kyotocabinet-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the kyotocabinet-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kyotocabinet-doc

Uninstall kyotocabinet-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kyotocabinet-doc

Remove kyotocabinet-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kyotocabinet-doc

Remove kyotocabinet-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kyotocabinet-doc

Dependencies

kyotocabinet-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• kyotocabinet-doc website

Summary

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