How To Install libjs-text-encoding on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-text-encoding on Kali Linux. libjs-text-encoding is Polyfill for the Encoding Living Standards API (JavaScript lib)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-text-encoding on Kali Linux.

What is libjs-text-encoding

libjs-text-encoding is:

Provides a polyfill for the Encoding Living Standard’s API for the Web, allowing encoding and decoding of textual data to and from Typed Array buffers for binary data in JavaScript.

There are three methods to install libjs-text-encoding 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 libjs-text-encoding Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libjs-text-encoding

Install libjs-text-encoding Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libjs-text-encoding using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libjs-text-encoding

Install libjs-text-encoding 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 libjs-text-encoding using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libjs-text-encoding

How To Uninstall libjs-text-encoding on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libjs-text-encoding package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libjs-text-encoding

Uninstall libjs-text-encoding And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libjs-text-encoding and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjs-text-encoding

Remove libjs-text-encoding Configurations and Data

To remove libjs-text-encoding configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libjs-text-encoding

Remove libjs-text-encoding configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libjs-text-encoding configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjs-text-encoding

Dependencies

libjs-text-encoding have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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