How To Install libscrappy-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libscrappy-perl

libscrappy-perl is:

Scrappy is an easy (and hopefully fun) way of scraping, spidering, and/or harvesting information from web pages, web services, and more. Scrappy is a feature rich, flexible, intelligent web automation tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libscrappy-perl

Install libscrappy-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libscrappy-perl

Install libscrappy-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 libscrappy-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libscrappy-perl

How To Uninstall libscrappy-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libscrappy-perl

Uninstall libscrappy-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libscrappy-perl

Remove libscrappy-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libscrappy-perl

Remove libscrappy-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libscrappy-perl

Dependencies

libscrappy-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libscrappy-perl website

Summary

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