How To Install liblouis-data on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis-data on Kali Linux.

What is liblouis-data

liblouis-data is:

Liblouis is a braille translator and back-translator. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg). New languages can easily be added through tables that support a rule- or dictionary based approach. Included are also tools for testing and debugging tables.

This package contains runtime data.

There are three methods to install liblouis-data 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 liblouis-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblouis-data

Install liblouis-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblouis-data

Install liblouis-data 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 liblouis-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblouis-data

How To Uninstall liblouis-data on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblouis-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblouis-data

Uninstall liblouis-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblouis-data

Remove liblouis-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge liblouis-data

Remove liblouis-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblouis-data

Dependencies

liblouis-data have the following dependencies:

References

• liblouis-data website

Summary

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