How To Install liblwt-ocaml on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwt-ocaml on Kali Linux. liblwt-ocaml is cooperative light-weight thread library for OCaml (runtime)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwt-ocaml on Kali Linux.

What is liblwt-ocaml

liblwt-ocaml is:

Lwt is a library for cooperative threads implemented in a monadic style. Unlike preemptive threads, cooperative threads do not use a scheduler to distribute processor time between threads. Instead, each thread must announce that it wants to let the others run.

This package contains runtime libraries for programs using core Lwt.

There are three methods to install liblwt-ocaml 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 liblwt-ocaml Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblwt-ocaml

Install liblwt-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblwt-ocaml

Install liblwt-ocaml 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 liblwt-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblwt-ocaml

How To Uninstall liblwt-ocaml on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblwt-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblwt-ocaml

Uninstall liblwt-ocaml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblwt-ocaml

Remove liblwt-ocaml Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge liblwt-ocaml

Remove liblwt-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblwt-ocaml

Dependencies

liblwt-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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