How To Install libdlib-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdlib-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libdlib-dev
libdlib-dev is:
Dlib is a general purpose cross-platform open source software library written in the C++ programming language. It now contains software components for dealing with networking, threads, graphical interfaces, complex data structures, linear algebra, statistical machine learning, image processing, data mining, XML and text parsing, numerical optimization, Bayesian networks, and numerous other tasks.
This package contains the development headers.
There are three methods to install libdlib-dev 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 libdlib-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libdlib-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdlib-devInstall libdlib-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libdlib-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdlib-devInstall libdlib-dev 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libdlib-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdlib-devHow To Uninstall libdlib-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libdlib-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdlib-devUninstall libdlib-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdlib-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdlib-devRemove libdlib-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libdlib-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdlib-devRemove libdlib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdlib-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdlib-devDependencies
libdlib-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdlib-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.