How To Install libebook-tools-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libebook-tools-perl

libebook-tools-perl is:

EBook-Tools contains a library and a command-line tool for unpacking, creating, correcting, and repacking electronic books.

Current native unpacking support is limited to PalmDoc, EReader, IMP, and Mobipocket without DRM protection, though MS Reader (lit.) and Mobipocket DRM is supported by automatic use of ConvertLIT and MobiDeDRM if available. The metadata correction tools are quite extensive, however. For more details, see the POD information on EBook::Tools and EBook::Tools::Unpack.

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

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

Install libebook-tools-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libebook-tools-perl

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

sudo aptitude -y install libebook-tools-perl

How To Uninstall libebook-tools-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libebook-tools-perl

Uninstall libebook-tools-perl And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove libebook-tools-perl Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

libebook-tools-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libarchive-zip-perl
• libbit-vector-perl
• libconfig-inifiles-perl
• libdate-manip-perl
• libdbd-sqlite3-perl
• libdbi-perl
• libencode-detect-perl
• libfile-mimeinfo-perl
• libfile-slurp-perl
• libfile-which-perl
• libhtml-parser-perl
• libimage-size-perl
• liblingua-en-nameparse-perl
• liblist-moreutils-perl
• libmojolicious-perl
• libossp-uuid-perl
• libpalm-perl
• libstring-crc32-perl
• libtie-ixhash-perl
• libtime-local-perl
• libwww-perl
• libxml-twig-perl
• txt2html

References

• libebook-tools-perl website

Summary

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