How To Install liblxc1 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc1 on Kali Linux. liblxc1 is Linux Containers userspace tools (library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc1 on Kali Linux.

What is liblxc1

liblxc1 is:

Containers are insulated areas inside a system, which have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, IPC, CPU and memory allocation and which can be created using the Control Group and Namespace features included in the Linux kernel.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install liblxc1 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 liblxc1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblxc1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblxc1

Install liblxc1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblxc1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblxc1

Install liblxc1 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 liblxc1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblxc1

How To Uninstall liblxc1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblxc1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblxc1

Uninstall liblxc1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblxc1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblxc1

Remove liblxc1 Configurations and Data

To remove liblxc1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblxc1

Remove liblxc1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblxc1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblxc1

Dependencies

liblxc1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.