How To Install libradare2-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libradare2-common on Kali Linux.

What is libradare2-common

libradare2-common is:

The project aims to create a complete, portable, multi-architecture, unix-like toolchain for reverse engineering.

It is composed by an hexadecimal editor (radare) with a wrapped IO layer supporting multiple backends for local/remote files, debugger (OS X, BSD, Linux, W32), stream analyzer, assembler/disassembler (rasm) for x86, ARM, PPC, m68k, Java, MSIL, SPARC, code analysis modules and scripting facilities. A bindiffer named radiff, base converter (rax), shellcode development helper (rasc), a binary information extractor supporting PE, mach0, ELF, class, etc. named rabin, and a block-based hash utility called rahash.

This package provides the arch independent files from radare2.

There are three methods to install libradare2-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 libradare2-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 libradare2-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libradare2-common

Install libradare2-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libradare2-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libradare2-common

Install libradare2-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 libradare2-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libradare2-common

How To Uninstall libradare2-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libradare2-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libradare2-common

Uninstall libradare2-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libradare2-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libradare2-common

Remove libradare2-common Configurations and Data

To remove libradare2-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libradare2-common

Remove libradare2-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libradare2-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libradare2-common

Dependencies

libradare2-common have the following dependencies:

References

• libradare2-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libradare2-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.