How To Install libeet-bin on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libeet-bin on Kali Linux. libeet-bin is EFL file chunk reading/writing - utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libeet-bin on Kali Linux.

What is libeet-bin

libeet-bin is:

Eet is a tiny library designed to write an arbitrary set of chunks of data to a file and optionally compress each chunk (very much like a zip file) and allows fast random-access reading of the file later on. It does not do zip as zip itself has more complexity than needed, and it was much simpler to implement this once here.

This is part of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

This package contains eet, an utility that allows you to extract, insert, encode and decode config blobs created with libeet.

There are three methods to install libeet-bin 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 libeet-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libeet-bin

Install libeet-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libeet-bin

Install libeet-bin 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 libeet-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libeet-bin

How To Uninstall libeet-bin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libeet-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libeet-bin

Uninstall libeet-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libeet-bin

Remove libeet-bin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libeet-bin

Remove libeet-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libeet-bin

Dependencies

libeet-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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