How To Install libtwitter-api-perl on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtwitter-api-perl on Kali Linux. libtwitter-api-perl is Twitter REST API library for Perl

Introduction

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

What is libtwitter-api-perl

libtwitter-api-perl is:

Twitter::API provides an interface to the Twitter REST API for perl.

Features:

  • full support for all Twitter REST API endpoints
  • not dependent on a new distribution for new endpoint support
  • optionally specify access tokens per API call
  • error handling via an exception object that captures the full request/response context
  • full support for OAuth handshake and Xauth authentication

Additional features are available via optional traits:

  • convenient methods for API endpoints with simplified argument handling via ApiMethods
  • normalized booleans (Twitter likes ’true’ and ‘false’, except when it doesn’t) via NormalizeBooleans
  • automatic decoding of HTML entities via DecodeHtmlEntities
  • automatic retry on transient errors via RetryOnError
  • “the whole enchilada” combines all the above traits via Enchilada
  • app-only (OAuth2) support via AppAuth
  • automatic rate limiting via RateLimiting

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtwitter-api-perl

Install libtwitter-api-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libtwitter-api-perl

Install libtwitter-api-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 libtwitter-api-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libtwitter-api-perl

How To Uninstall libtwitter-api-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libtwitter-api-perl

Uninstall libtwitter-api-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtwitter-api-perl

Remove libtwitter-api-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libtwitter-api-perl

Remove libtwitter-api-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtwitter-api-perl

Dependencies

libtwitter-api-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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