How To Install liblouis20 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis20 on Kali Linux.

What is liblouis20

liblouis20 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).

This package contains shared libraries.

There are three methods to install liblouis20 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 liblouis20 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblouis20 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblouis20

Install liblouis20 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblouis20 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblouis20

Install liblouis20 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 liblouis20 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblouis20

How To Uninstall liblouis20 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblouis20 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblouis20

Uninstall liblouis20 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblouis20 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblouis20

Remove liblouis20 Configurations and Data

To remove liblouis20 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblouis20

Remove liblouis20 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblouis20 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblouis20

Dependencies

liblouis20 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• liblouis-data

References

• liblouis20 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis20 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.