How To Install liblzf1 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf1 on Kali Linux.

What is liblzf1

liblzf1 is:

This library implements the very, very fast LZF compression algorithm written in C. Compression ratios are moderate with 40 to 50 percent for typical binary data, but decompression speed is basically at unoptimized memcpy speed.

There are three methods to install liblzf1 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 liblzf1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblzf1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblzf1

Install liblzf1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblzf1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblzf1

Install liblzf1 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 liblzf1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblzf1

How To Uninstall liblzf1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liblzf1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblzf1

Uninstall liblzf1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblzf1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblzf1

Remove liblzf1 Configurations and Data

To remove liblzf1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblzf1

Remove liblzf1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblzf1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblzf1

Dependencies

liblzf1 have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• liblzf1 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.