How To Install libmetacpan-client-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetacpan-client-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libmetacpan-client-perl

libmetacpan-client-perl is:

MetaCPAN::Client is a hopefully-complete API-compliant client to MetaCPAN (https://metacpan.org) with DWIM capabilities, to make your life easier.

This module has three purposes:

• Provide 100% of the MetaCPAN API
• Be lightweight, to allow flexible usage
• DWIM

There are three methods to install libmetacpan-client-perl 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 libmetacpan-client-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmetacpan-client-perl

Install libmetacpan-client-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmetacpan-client-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmetacpan-client-perl

Install libmetacpan-client-perl 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 libmetacpan-client-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmetacpan-client-perl

How To Uninstall libmetacpan-client-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libmetacpan-client-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmetacpan-client-perl

Uninstall libmetacpan-client-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmetacpan-client-perl

Remove libmetacpan-client-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libmetacpan-client-perl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmetacpan-client-perl

Remove libmetacpan-client-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmetacpan-client-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmetacpan-client-perl

Dependencies

libmetacpan-client-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libmetacpan-client-perl website

Summary

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