How To Install libosinfo-bin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo-bin on Kali Linux.

What is libosinfo-bin

libosinfo-bin is:

libosinfo is a GObject based library API for managing information about operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they can support. It includes a database containing device metadata and provides APIs to match/identify optimal devices for deploying an operating system on a hypervisor.

This package contains the runtime files to detect operating systems and query the database.

There are three methods to install libosinfo-bin 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 libosinfo-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libosinfo-bin

Install libosinfo-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libosinfo-bin

Install libosinfo-bin 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 libosinfo-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libosinfo-bin

How To Uninstall libosinfo-bin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libosinfo-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libosinfo-bin

Uninstall libosinfo-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libosinfo-bin

Remove libosinfo-bin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libosinfo-bin

Remove libosinfo-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libosinfo-bin

Dependencies

libosinfo-bin have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libosinfo-1.0-0

References

• libosinfo-bin website

Summary

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