How To Install libprimesieve-dev-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libprimesieve-dev-common on Kali Linux.

What is libprimesieve-dev-common

libprimesieve-dev-common is:

primesieve is a free software program and C/C++ library that generates primes using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. primesieve can generate primes and prime k-tuplets up to nearly 2^64.

See http://primesieve.org/ for more information.

This package provides the headers needed by developers.

There are three methods to install libprimesieve-dev-common 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 libprimesieve-dev-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libprimesieve-dev-common

Install libprimesieve-dev-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libprimesieve-dev-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libprimesieve-dev-common

Install libprimesieve-dev-common 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 libprimesieve-dev-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libprimesieve-dev-common

How To Uninstall libprimesieve-dev-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libprimesieve-dev-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libprimesieve-dev-common

Uninstall libprimesieve-dev-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprimesieve-dev-common

Remove libprimesieve-dev-common Configurations and Data

To remove libprimesieve-dev-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libprimesieve-dev-common

Remove libprimesieve-dev-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libprimesieve-dev-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprimesieve-dev-common

Dependencies

libprimesieve-dev-common have the following dependencies:

References

• libprimesieve-dev-common website

Summary

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