How To Install libtextwrap-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtextwrap-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libtextwrap-dev
libtextwrap-dev is:
Text-wrapping (or line-folding) library for displaying a string on the terminal. This supports i18n (internationalization), i.e, automatic locale-encoding detection, multibyte encoding (such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, and so on), fullwidth characters (occupying two columns per one character, like CJK Ideogram), combining characters (occupying zero columns per one character, like Thai and diacritical marks), and languages which do not use whitespaces between words (like Chinese and Japanese).
This package contains files needed for development using this library.
There are three methods to install libtextwrap-dev 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 libtextwrap-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libtextwrap-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtextwrap-devInstall libtextwrap-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libtextwrap-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtextwrap-devInstall libtextwrap-dev 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libtextwrap-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtextwrap-devHow To Uninstall libtextwrap-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libtextwrap-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtextwrap-devUninstall libtextwrap-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtextwrap-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtextwrap-devRemove libtextwrap-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libtextwrap-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtextwrap-devRemove libtextwrap-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtextwrap-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtextwrap-devDependencies
libtextwrap-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtextwrap-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.