How To Install libcmph-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcmph-tools on Kali Linux. libcmph-tools is C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library command line utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcmph-tools on Kali Linux.

What is libcmph-tools

libcmph-tools is:

Minimal perfect hash functions are widely used for memory efficient storage and fast retrieval of items from static sets, such as words in natural languages, reserved words in programming languages or interactive systems, universal resource locations (URLs) in Web search engines, or item sets in data mining techniques.

This package contains the cmph command line utility to generate and query minimal perfect hash functions.

There are three methods to install libcmph-tools 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 libcmph-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcmph-tools

Install libcmph-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libcmph-tools

Install libcmph-tools 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 libcmph-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcmph-tools

How To Uninstall libcmph-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libcmph-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcmph-tools

Uninstall libcmph-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcmph-tools

Remove libcmph-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libcmph-tools

Remove libcmph-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcmph-tools

Dependencies

libcmph-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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