How To Install libneon27 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libneon27 on Kali Linux. libneon27 is HTTP and WebDAV client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libneon27 on Kali Linux.

What is libneon27

libneon27 is:

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API.

WARNING: THE NEON API IS NOT YET STABLE.

Provides lower-level interfaces to directly implement new HTTP methods, and higher-level interfaces so that you don’t have to worry about the lower-level stuff.

Current features:

  • High-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods (PUT, GET, HEAD, etc.)
  • Low-level interface to HTTP request handling, to allow implementing new methods easily.
  • persistent connections
  • RFC2617 basic and digest authentication (including auth-int, md5-sess)
  • Proxy support (including basic/digest authentication)
  • SSL/TLS support using OpenSSL (including client certificate and thread safety support)
  • Generic WebDAV 207 XML response handling mechanism
  • XML parsing using the expat or libxml parsers
  • Easy generation of error messages from 207 error responses
  • WebDAV resource manipulation: MOVE, COPY, DELETE, MKCOL.
  • WebDAV metadata support: set and remove properties, query any set ofi properties (PROPPATCH/PROPFIND).
  • autoconf macros supplied for easily embedding neon directly inside an application source tree.

There are three methods to install libneon27 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 libneon27 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libneon27 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libneon27

Install libneon27 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libneon27 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libneon27

Install libneon27 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 libneon27 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libneon27

How To Uninstall libneon27 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libneon27 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libneon27

Uninstall libneon27 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libneon27 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libneon27

Remove libneon27 Configurations and Data

To remove libneon27 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libneon27

Remove libneon27 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libneon27 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libneon27

Dependencies

libneon27 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libneon27 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.