How To Install libjsoup-java on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjsoup-java on Kali Linux. libjsoup-java is Java HTML parser that makes sense of real-world HTML soup

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjsoup-java on Kali Linux.

What is libjsoup-java

libjsoup-java is:

Jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.

jsoup implements the WHATWG HTML specification (http://whatwg.org/html), and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers do.

  • parse HTML from a URL, file, or string
  • find and extract data, using DOM traversal or CSS selectors
  • manipulate the HTML elements, attributes, and text
  • clean user-submitted content against a safe white-list, to prevent XSS
  • output tidy HTML

jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree.

There are three methods to install libjsoup-java 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 libjsoup-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libjsoup-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libjsoup-java

Install libjsoup-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libjsoup-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libjsoup-java

Install libjsoup-java 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 libjsoup-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libjsoup-java

How To Uninstall libjsoup-java on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libjsoup-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libjsoup-java

Uninstall libjsoup-java And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjsoup-java

Remove libjsoup-java Configurations and Data

To remove libjsoup-java configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libjsoup-java

Remove libjsoup-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libjsoup-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjsoup-java

Dependencies

libjsoup-java have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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