How To Install libsasl2-modules on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsasl2-modules on Kali Linux.

What is libsasl2-modules

libsasl2-modules is:

This is the Cyrus SASL API implementation, version 2.1. See package libsasl2-2 and RFC 2222 for more information.

This package provides the following SASL modules: LOGIN, PLAIN, ANONYMOUS, NTLM, CRAM-MD5, and DIGEST-MD5 (with DES support).

There are three methods to install libsasl2-modules 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 libsasl2-modules Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libsasl2-modules using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libsasl2-modules

Install libsasl2-modules Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libsasl2-modules using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libsasl2-modules

Install libsasl2-modules 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 libsasl2-modules using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsasl2-modules

How To Uninstall libsasl2-modules on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libsasl2-modules package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsasl2-modules

Uninstall libsasl2-modules And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsasl2-modules and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsasl2-modules

Remove libsasl2-modules Configurations and Data

To remove libsasl2-modules configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsasl2-modules

Remove libsasl2-modules configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libsasl2-modules configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsasl2-modules

Dependencies

libsasl2-modules have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libssl1.1

References

• libsasl2-modules website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsasl2-modules package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.