How To Install libknet-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libknet-doc on Kali Linux. libknet-doc is kronosnet core API documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libknet-doc on Kali Linux.

What is libknet-doc

libknet-doc is:

Kronosnet, often referred to as knet, is a network abstraction layer designed for High Availability use cases, where redundancy, security, fault tolerance and fast fail-over are the core requirements of your application.

Kronosnet is the new underlying network protocol for Linux HA components (Corosync), that features ability to use multiple links between nodes, active/active and active/passive link failover policies, automatic link recovery, FIPS compliant encryption (nss and/or openssl), automatic PMTUd and in general better performances compared to the old network protocol.

This package contains the man pages of the API functions.

There are three methods to install libknet-doc 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 libknet-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libknet-doc

Install libknet-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libknet-doc

Install libknet-doc 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 libknet-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libknet-doc

How To Uninstall libknet-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libknet-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libknet-doc

Uninstall libknet-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libknet-doc

Remove libknet-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libknet-doc

Remove libknet-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libknet-doc

Dependencies

libknet-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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