How To Install libcod-tools-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libcod-tools-perl

libcod-tools-perl is:

cod-tools is a set of Perl modules and command line tools for manipulating Crystallographic Information Format (CIF) v1.1 and v2.0 files.

This package contains Perl modules.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcod-tools-perl

Install libcod-tools-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libcod-tools-perl

Install libcod-tools-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 libcod-tools-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcod-tools-perl

How To Uninstall libcod-tools-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libcod-tools-perl

Uninstall libcod-tools-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcod-tools-perl

Remove libcod-tools-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libcod-tools-perl

Remove libcod-tools-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcod-tools-perl

Dependencies

libcod-tools-perl have the following dependencies:

• libclone-perl
• libdata-compare-perl
• libdate-calc-perl
• libdatetime-format-rfc3339-perl
• libdbi-perl
• libdigest-sha-perl
• libhtml-parser-perl
• libjson-perl
• liblist-moreutils-perl
• libparse-yapp-perl
• libtext-unidecode-perl
• perl
• perlapi-5.32.1
• libc6
• libsymspg1

References

• libcod-tools-perl website

Summary

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