How To Install libm17n-0 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libm17n-0 on Kali Linux. libm17n-0 is multilingual text processing library - runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libm17n-0 on Kali Linux.

What is libm17n-0

libm17n-0 is:

The m17n library is a multilingual text processing library for the C language. This library has following features:

  • The m17n library is an open source software.
  • The m17n library for any Linux/Unix applications.
  • The m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of applications.
  • The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text. M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any information required to input, display and edit the text.
  • The m17n library supports functions to handle M-texts.

m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.

This package contains the runtime part of m17n-lib.

There are three methods to install libm17n-0 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 libm17n-0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libm17n-0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libm17n-0

Install libm17n-0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libm17n-0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libm17n-0

Install libm17n-0 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 libm17n-0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libm17n-0

How To Uninstall libm17n-0 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libm17n-0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libm17n-0

Uninstall libm17n-0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libm17n-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libm17n-0

Remove libm17n-0 Configurations and Data

To remove libm17n-0 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libm17n-0

Remove libm17n-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libm17n-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libm17n-0

Dependencies

libm17n-0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libm17n-0 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.