How To Install libcaffeine-java on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaffeine-java on Kali Linux. libcaffeine-java is High performance caching library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcaffeine-java on Kali Linux.

What is libcaffeine-java

libcaffeine-java is:

Caffeine provides an in-memory cache using a Google Guava inspired API. The improvements draw on the experience designing Guava’s cache and ConcurrentLinkedHashMap.

Caffeine provides flexible construction to create a cache with a combination of the following features:

  • Automatic loading of entries into the cache, optionally asynchronously
  • Size-based eviction when a maximum is exceeded based on frequency and recency
  • Time-based expiration of entries, measured since last access or last write
  • Asynchronously refresh when the first stale request for an entry occurs
  • Keys automatically wrapped in weak references
  • Values automatically wrapped in weak or soft references
  • Notification of evicted (or otherwise removed) entries
  • Writes propagated to an external resource
  • Accumulation of cache access statistics

There are three methods to install libcaffeine-java 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 libcaffeine-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcaffeine-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcaffeine-java

Install libcaffeine-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcaffeine-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcaffeine-java

Install libcaffeine-java 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 libcaffeine-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcaffeine-java

How To Uninstall libcaffeine-java on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libcaffeine-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcaffeine-java

Uninstall libcaffeine-java And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcaffeine-java

Remove libcaffeine-java Configurations and Data

To remove libcaffeine-java configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcaffeine-java

Remove libcaffeine-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcaffeine-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcaffeine-java

Dependencies

libcaffeine-java have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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