How To Install libpackage-variant-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpackage-variant-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libpackage-variant-perl

libpackage-variant-perl is:

Package::Variant allows you to build a variable package that contains a package template and can use it to build variant packages at runtime.

Your variable package will export a subroutine which will build a variant package, combining its arguments with the template, and return the name of the new variant package.

The implementation does not care about what kind of packages it builds, be they simple function exporters, classes, singletons or something entirely different.

There are three methods to install libpackage-variant-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 libpackage-variant-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 libpackage-variant-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpackage-variant-perl

Install libpackage-variant-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libpackage-variant-perl

Install libpackage-variant-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 libpackage-variant-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpackage-variant-perl

How To Uninstall libpackage-variant-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libpackage-variant-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpackage-variant-perl

Uninstall libpackage-variant-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpackage-variant-perl

Remove libpackage-variant-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libpackage-variant-perl

Remove libpackage-variant-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpackage-variant-perl

Dependencies

libpackage-variant-perl have the following dependencies:

• libimport-into-perl
• libmodule-runtime-perl
• libstrictures-perl
• perl

References

• libpackage-variant-perl website

Summary

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