How To Install libcoap2 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcoap2
on Kali Linux.
What is libcoap2
libcoap2 is:
Lightweight application-protocol for devices that are constrained their resources such as computing power, RF range, memory, bandwidth, or network packet sizes. This protocol, CoAP, is developed in the IETF working group “CoRE”, http://6lowapp.net and was standardized in RFC 7252.
The libcoap library v2 has DTLS functionality included based on TLS functions provided by OpenSSL in addition to the previous API version.
This package contains the various libcoap libraries based on API v2 with and without DTLS functionality.
There are three methods to install libcoap2
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 libcoap2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libcoap2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install libcoap2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libcoap2
using apt
by running the following command:
Install libcoap2 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.
After updating apt database, We can install libcoap2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libcoap2 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libcoap2
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall libcoap2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcoap2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove libcoap2 Configurations and Data
To remove libcoap2
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove libcoap2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcoap2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
libcoap2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcoap2
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.