How To Install libantlr4-runtime-dev on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libantlr4-runtime-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libantlr4-runtime-dev

libantlr4-runtime-dev is:

ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files. It’s widely used to build languages, tools, and frameworks. From a grammar, ANTLR generates a parser that can build and walk parse trees.

This package contains the development files of C++ runtime support for ANTLR.

There are three methods to install libantlr4-runtime-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 libantlr4-runtime-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libantlr4-runtime-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libantlr4-runtime-dev

Install libantlr4-runtime-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libantlr4-runtime-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libantlr4-runtime-dev

Install libantlr4-runtime-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 update

After updating apt database, We can install libantlr4-runtime-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libantlr4-runtime-dev

How To Uninstall libantlr4-runtime-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libantlr4-runtime-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libantlr4-runtime-dev

Uninstall libantlr4-runtime-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libantlr4-runtime-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libantlr4-runtime-dev

Remove libantlr4-runtime-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libantlr4-runtime-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libantlr4-runtime-dev

Remove libantlr4-runtime-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libantlr4-runtime-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libantlr4-runtime-dev

Dependencies

libantlr4-runtime-dev have the following dependencies:

• libantlr4-runtime4.9

References

• libantlr4-runtime-dev website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libantlr4-runtime-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.