How To Install libdancer-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libdancer-perl

libdancer-perl is:

Dancer is a web application framework designed to be as effortless as possible for the developer, taking care of the boring bits as easily as possible, yet staying out of your way and letting you get on with writing your code.

Dancer aims to provide the simplest way for writing web applications, and offers the flexibility to scale between a very simple lightweight web service consisting of a few lines of code in a single file, all the way up to a more complex fully-fledged web application with session support, templates for views and layouts, etc.

This is the original version of Dancer, which is now in maintenance mode. This means that it will not receive significant new features, but will continue to receive bugfixes and security fixes.

However, you should consider migrating to Dancer2 instead when you can, and are advised to use Dancer2 for newly-started apps.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdancer-perl

Install libdancer-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libdancer-perl

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

sudo aptitude -y install libdancer-perl

How To Uninstall libdancer-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libdancer-perl

Uninstall libdancer-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdancer-perl

Remove libdancer-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libdancer-perl

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

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

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

Dependencies

libdancer-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libdancer-perl website

Summary

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