How To Install libextractor3 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor3 on Kali Linux. libextractor3 is extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type (library)

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 update

After updating apt database, We can install libextractor3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libextractor3

Install libextractor3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libextractor3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libextractor3

Install 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install libextractor3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libextractor3

How To Uninstall libextractor3 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libextractor3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libextractor3

Uninstall 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 libextractor3

Remove libextractor3 Configurations and Data

To remove libextractor3 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libextractor3

Remove 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 libextractor3

Dependencies

libextractor3 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor3 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.