How To Install libgearman-client-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgearman-client-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libgearman-client-perl

libgearman-client-perl is:

Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.

This package contains the Gearman::Client module, a client class for the Gearman distributed job system, providing a framework for sending jobs to one or more Gearman servers. For more information, see URL:http://www.danga.com/gearman/.

There are three methods to install libgearman-client-perl 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 libgearman-client-perl Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgearman-client-perl

Install libgearman-client-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgearman-client-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgearman-client-perl

Install libgearman-client-perl 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 libgearman-client-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgearman-client-perl

How To Uninstall libgearman-client-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libgearman-client-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgearman-client-perl

Uninstall libgearman-client-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgearman-client-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgearman-client-perl

Remove libgearman-client-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libgearman-client-perl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgearman-client-perl

Remove libgearman-client-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgearman-client-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgearman-client-perl

Dependencies

libgearman-client-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libio-socket-ssl-perl
• liblist-moreutils-perl
• libstring-crc32-perl
• perl

References

• libgearman-client-perl website

Summary

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