How To Install libevent-openssl-2.1-7 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libevent-openssl-2.1-7
on Kali Linux.
What is libevent-openssl-2.1-7
libevent-openssl-2.1-7 is:
Libevent is an asynchronous event notification library that provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached.
It is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event driven network servers. Currently, libevent supports /dev/poll, kqueue(2), event ports, select(2), poll(2) and epoll(4).
There is now a bufferevent type that supports SSL/TLS using the OpenSSL library. The code for this is build in a separate library, libevent_openssl, so that your programs don’t need to link against OpenSSL unless they actually want SSL support.
There are three methods to install libevent-openssl-2.1-7
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 libevent-openssl-2.1-7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libevent-openssl-2.1-7
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install libevent-openssl-2.1-7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install libevent-openssl-2.1-7
using apt
by running the following command:
Install libevent-openssl-2.1-7 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.
After updating apt database, We can install libevent-openssl-2.1-7
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libevent-openssl-2.1-7 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libevent-openssl-2.1-7
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall libevent-openssl-2.1-7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libevent-openssl-2.1-7
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove libevent-openssl-2.1-7 Configurations and Data
To remove libevent-openssl-2.1-7
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove libevent-openssl-2.1-7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libevent-openssl-2.1-7
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
libevent-openssl-2.1-7 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libevent-openssl-2.1-7
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.