How To Install libgd-ocaml on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgd-ocaml on Kali Linux.
What is libgd-ocaml
libgd-ocaml 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 only the shared runtime stub libraries.
There are three methods to install libgd-ocaml 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgd-ocamlInstall libgd-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libgd-ocaml using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgd-ocamlInstall libgd-ocaml 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgd-ocamlHow To Uninstall libgd-ocaml on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libgd-ocaml package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgd-ocamlUninstall libgd-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgd-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgd-ocamlRemove libgd-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove libgd-ocaml configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgd-ocamlRemove libgd-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgd-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgd-ocamlDependencies
libgd-ocaml have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgd-ocaml package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.