How To Install libflickcurl-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libflickcurl-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libflickcurl-dev
libflickcurl-dev is:
Flickcurl is a C library for the Flickr API, handling creating the requests, signing, token management, calling the API, marshalling request parameters and decoding responses. The library now supports 100% of the 2008-01-11 version of the API, including the functions for photo uploading, browsing, searching, adding and editing comments, groups, notes, photosets, categories, activity, blogs, favorites, places, tags and photo metadata. It also includes a program flickrdf to turn photo metadata, tags and machine tags into RDF descriptions of photos and tags.
This package contains the development libraries and headers for flickcurl.
There are three methods to install libflickcurl-dev 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 libflickcurl-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libflickcurl-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libflickcurl-devInstall libflickcurl-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libflickcurl-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libflickcurl-devInstall libflickcurl-dev 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 libflickcurl-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libflickcurl-devHow To Uninstall libflickcurl-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libflickcurl-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libflickcurl-devUninstall libflickcurl-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libflickcurl-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libflickcurl-devRemove libflickcurl-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libflickcurl-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libflickcurl-devRemove libflickcurl-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libflickcurl-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libflickcurl-devDependencies
libflickcurl-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libflickcurl-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.