How To Install liballeggl4-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liballeggl4-dev on Kali Linux.
What is liballeggl4-dev
liballeggl4-dev is:
This package contains the development headers for liballeggl.
AllegroGL is an Allegro add-on that allows you to use OpenGL alongside Allegro – you use OpenGL for your rendering to the screen, and Allegro for miscellaneous tasks like gathering input, doing timers, getting cross-platform portability, loading data, and drawing your textures. So this library fills the same hole that things like glut do.
AllegroGL also automatically exposes most, if not all, OpenGL extensions available to user programs. This means you no longer have to manually load them; extension management is already done for you.
Allegro is a cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform.
There are three methods to install liballeggl4-dev 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 liballeggl4-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install liballeggl4-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liballeggl4-devInstall liballeggl4-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install liballeggl4-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liballeggl4-devInstall liballeggl4-dev 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install liballeggl4-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liballeggl4-devHow To Uninstall liballeggl4-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the liballeggl4-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liballeggl4-devUninstall liballeggl4-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liballeggl4-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liballeggl4-devRemove liballeggl4-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liballeggl4-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liballeggl4-devRemove liballeggl4-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liballeggl4-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liballeggl4-devDependencies
liballeggl4-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liballeggl4-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.