How To Install libextractor3 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor3 on Kali Linux.
What is libextractor3
libextractor3 is:
GNU libextractor provides developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files.
Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, MAN, PS, DVI, OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), FLAC, MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), XM (eXtended Module), IT (Impulse Tracker), NSF(E) (NES music), SID (C64 music), EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), LZH, LHA, RAR, ZIP, CAB, 7-ZIP, AR, MTREE, PAX, CPIO, ISO9660, SHAR, RAW, XAR, FLV, REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT and ASF.
Also, various additional MIME types are detected. It can also be used to compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160).
This package contains the library and all plugins.
There are three methods to install libextractor3 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 libextractor3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libextractor3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libextractor3Install libextractor3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libextractor3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libextractor3Install libextractor3 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 libextractor3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libextractor3How To Uninstall libextractor3 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libextractor3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libextractor3Uninstall libextractor3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libextractor3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libextractor3Remove libextractor3 Configurations and Data
To remove libextractor3 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libextractor3Remove libextractor3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libextractor3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libextractor3Dependencies
libextractor3 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor3 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.