How To Install libamazon-s3-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libamazon-s3-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libamazon-s3-perl

libamazon-s3-perl is:

Amazon::S3 provides a portable client interface to Amazon Simple Storage System (S3). It is a fork of Net::Amazon::S3 (packaged for Debian as libnet-amazon-s3-perl) which uses XML::SAX instead of XML::LibXML. Some applications prefer to use Amazon::S3 rather than Net::Amazon::S3 to improve portability (at the expense of performance).

There are three methods to install libamazon-s3-perl 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 libamazon-s3-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libamazon-s3-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libamazon-s3-perl

Install libamazon-s3-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libamazon-s3-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libamazon-s3-perl

Install libamazon-s3-perl 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 libamazon-s3-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libamazon-s3-perl

How To Uninstall libamazon-s3-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libamazon-s3-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libamazon-s3-perl

Uninstall libamazon-s3-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libamazon-s3-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libamazon-s3-perl

Remove libamazon-s3-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libamazon-s3-perl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libamazon-s3-perl

Remove libamazon-s3-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libamazon-s3-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libamazon-s3-perl

Dependencies

libamazon-s3-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libclass-accessor-perl
• libdigest-hmac-perl
• libdigest-md5-file-perl
• libhttp-date-perl
• liblwp-useragent-determined-perl
• liburi-perl
• libxml-simple-perl

References

• libamazon-s3-perl website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libamazon-s3-perl package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.