How To Install libchild-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libchild-perl

libchild-perl is:

Fork is too low level, and difficult to manage. Often people forget to exit at the end, reap their children, and check exit status. The problem is the low level functions provided to do these things. Throw in pipes for IPC and you just have a pile of things nobody wants to think about.

Child is an Object Oriented interface to fork. It provides a clean way to start a child process, and manage it afterwords. It provides methods for running, waiting, killing, checking, and even communicating with a child process.

There are three methods to install libchild-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 libchild-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 libchild-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libchild-perl

Install libchild-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libchild-perl

Install libchild-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 libchild-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libchild-perl

How To Uninstall libchild-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libchild-perl

Uninstall libchild-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libchild-perl

Remove libchild-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libchild-perl

Remove libchild-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libchild-perl

Dependencies

libchild-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libchild-perl website

Summary

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