How To Install libscalar-string-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libscalar-string-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libscalar-string-perl

libscalar-string-perl is:

Scalar::String is about the string part of plain Perl scalars. A scalar has a string value, which is notionally a sequence of Unicode codepoints, but may be internally encoded in either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. In places, and more so in older versions of Perl, the internal encoding shows through. To fully understand Perl strings it is necessary to understand these implementation details.

This module provides functions to classify a string by encoding and to encode a string in a desired way.

There are three methods to install libscalar-string-perl 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 libscalar-string-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libscalar-string-perl

Install libscalar-string-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libscalar-string-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libscalar-string-perl

Install libscalar-string-perl 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 libscalar-string-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libscalar-string-perl

How To Uninstall libscalar-string-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libscalar-string-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libscalar-string-perl

Uninstall libscalar-string-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libscalar-string-perl

Remove libscalar-string-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libscalar-string-perl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libscalar-string-perl

Remove libscalar-string-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libscalar-string-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libscalar-string-perl

Dependencies

libscalar-string-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• perlapi-5.32.0

References

• libscalar-string-perl website

Summary

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