How To Install libboinc7 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libboinc7 on Kali Linux.
What is libboinc7
libboinc7 is:
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources.
The environment offers a series of libraries that both the user-run client and the client-invoked scientific applications depend on. With the number of cores per machine growing, and with scientific apps commonly started for every core, it is essential to have memory shared as much as possible between binaries of all projects.
There are three methods to install libboinc7 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 libboinc7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libboinc7 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libboinc7Install libboinc7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libboinc7 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libboinc7Install libboinc7 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 libboinc7 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libboinc7How To Uninstall libboinc7 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libboinc7 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libboinc7Uninstall libboinc7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libboinc7 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libboinc7Remove libboinc7 Configurations and Data
To remove libboinc7 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libboinc7Remove libboinc7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libboinc7 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libboinc7Dependencies
libboinc7 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libboinc7 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.