How To Install libear on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libear on Kali Linux.

What is libear

libear is:

Bear records the flags passed to the compiler for each translation unit and stores them in a JSON file. This file can be used by Clang’s tooling interface and programs like clang-check to process a translation unit.

cmake supports the generation of JSON compilation databases out of the box. For any other build system that does not support this, Bear can be used instead to intercept the invocation of the compiler.

This is the required library for wrapping system calls.

There are three methods to install libear 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 libear Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libear

Install libear Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libear using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libear

Install libear 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 libear using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libear

How To Uninstall libear on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libear package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libear

Uninstall libear And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libear

Remove libear Configurations and Data

To remove libear configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libear

Remove libear configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libear

Dependencies

libear have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libfmt7
• libgrpc++1
• libgrpc10
• libprotobuf23
• libspdlog1-fmt7
• libstdc++6

References

• libear website

Summary

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