How To Install libshine-ocaml on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libshine-ocaml on Kali Linux. libshine-ocaml is OCaml interface to the shine library – runtime files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libshine-ocaml on Kali Linux.

What is libshine-ocaml

libshine-ocaml is:

This package provides an interface to the shine library for OCaml programmers.

Shine can be used to encode MP3 audio data on architectures with no floating point processing unit (FPU) at a much better rate than encoding libraries implemented using floating-point arithmetic.

This package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.

There are three methods to install libshine-ocaml 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 libshine-ocaml Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libshine-ocaml

Install libshine-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libshine-ocaml

Install libshine-ocaml 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 libshine-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libshine-ocaml

How To Uninstall libshine-ocaml on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libshine-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libshine-ocaml

Uninstall libshine-ocaml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libshine-ocaml

Remove libshine-ocaml Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libshine-ocaml

Remove libshine-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libshine-ocaml

Dependencies

libshine-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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