How To Install libpth20 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpth20 on Kali Linux.

What is libpth20

libpth20 is:

Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (“multithreading”) inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.

There are three methods to install libpth20 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 libpth20 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libpth20 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpth20

Install libpth20 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libpth20 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libpth20

Install libpth20 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 libpth20 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpth20

How To Uninstall libpth20 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libpth20 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpth20

Uninstall libpth20 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libpth20 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpth20

Remove libpth20 Configurations and Data

To remove libpth20 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libpth20

Remove libpth20 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libpth20 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpth20

Dependencies

libpth20 have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• libpth20 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpth20 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.