How To Install libprotoc23 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc23 on Kali Linux.
What is libprotoc23
libprotoc23 is:
Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data - similar to XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the “old” format.
Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.
This package contains the runtime library needed for the protocol buffer compiler.
There are three methods to install libprotoc23 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 libprotoc23 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libprotoc23 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprotoc23Install libprotoc23 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libprotoc23 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprotoc23Install libprotoc23 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libprotoc23 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprotoc23How To Uninstall libprotoc23 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libprotoc23 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprotoc23Uninstall libprotoc23 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprotoc23 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprotoc23Remove libprotoc23 Configurations and Data
To remove libprotoc23 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprotoc23Remove libprotoc23 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprotoc23 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprotoc23Dependencies
libprotoc23 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc23 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.