How To Install libbrotli-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbrotli-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libbrotli-dev
libbrotli-dev is:
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
This package installs development files.
There are three methods to install libbrotli-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 libbrotli-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libbrotli-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbrotli-devInstall libbrotli-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libbrotli-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbrotli-devInstall libbrotli-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 libbrotli-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbrotli-devHow To Uninstall libbrotli-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libbrotli-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbrotli-devUninstall libbrotli-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbrotli-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbrotli-devRemove libbrotli-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libbrotli-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbrotli-devRemove libbrotli-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbrotli-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbrotli-devDependencies
libbrotli-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbrotli-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.