How To Install liblinux-fd-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblinux-fd-perl on Kali Linux.

What is liblinux-fd-perl

liblinux-fd-perl is:

Linux::FD provides you Linux specific special file handles. These are

• Event filehandles
• Signal filehandles
• Timer filehandles

These allow you to use conventional polling mechanisms to wait a large variety of events.

There are three methods to install liblinux-fd-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 liblinux-fd-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 liblinux-fd-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblinux-fd-perl

Install liblinux-fd-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblinux-fd-perl

Install liblinux-fd-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 liblinux-fd-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblinux-fd-perl

How To Uninstall liblinux-fd-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblinux-fd-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblinux-fd-perl

Uninstall liblinux-fd-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblinux-fd-perl

Remove liblinux-fd-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge liblinux-fd-perl

Remove liblinux-fd-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblinux-fd-perl

Dependencies

liblinux-fd-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• perlapi-5.32.0
• libc6
• libsub-exporter-perl

References

• liblinux-fd-perl website

Summary

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