How To Install liboobs-1-5 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboobs-1-5 on Kali Linux.

What is liboobs-1-5

liboobs-1-5 is:

Liboobs is a lightweight library that provides a GObject based interface to system-tools-backends. It’s completely abstracted of the communication and authentication details, making it easy for applications to integrate with the system details.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install liboobs-1-5 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 liboobs-1-5 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liboobs-1-5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboobs-1-5

Install liboobs-1-5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboobs-1-5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboobs-1-5

Install liboobs-1-5 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 liboobs-1-5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboobs-1-5

How To Uninstall liboobs-1-5 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liboobs-1-5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboobs-1-5

Uninstall liboobs-1-5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboobs-1-5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboobs-1-5

Remove liboobs-1-5 Configurations and Data

To remove liboobs-1-5 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboobs-1-5

Remove liboobs-1-5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboobs-1-5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboobs-1-5

Dependencies

liboobs-1-5 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdbus-1-3
• libdbus-glib-1-2
• libglib2.0-0
• system-tools-backends

References

• liboobs-1-5 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboobs-1-5 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.