How To Install libgd-ocaml-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgd-ocaml-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libgd-ocaml-dev
libgd-ocaml-dev is:
This package provides an interface to the GD library for OCaml programmers.
GD is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colours, cut and paste from other images, flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG is one of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers.
This package contains all the development stuff you need to develop OCaml programs which use this module.
There are three methods to install libgd-ocaml-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 libgd-ocaml-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libgd-ocaml-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgd-ocaml-devInstall libgd-ocaml-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libgd-ocaml-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgd-ocaml-devInstall libgd-ocaml-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 libgd-ocaml-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgd-ocaml-devHow To Uninstall libgd-ocaml-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libgd-ocaml-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgd-ocaml-devUninstall libgd-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgd-ocaml-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgd-ocaml-devRemove libgd-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libgd-ocaml-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgd-ocaml-devRemove libgd-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgd-ocaml-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgd-ocaml-devDependencies
libgd-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgd-ocaml-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.