How To Install libuchardet-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libuchardet-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libuchardet-dev
libuchardet-dev is:
uchardet is a C language binding of the original C++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by Mozilla.
uchardet is a encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.
This package contains the development support files.
There are three methods to install libuchardet-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 libuchardet-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libuchardet-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libuchardet-devInstall libuchardet-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libuchardet-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libuchardet-devInstall libuchardet-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 libuchardet-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libuchardet-devHow To Uninstall libuchardet-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libuchardet-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libuchardet-devUninstall libuchardet-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libuchardet-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libuchardet-devRemove libuchardet-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libuchardet-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libuchardet-devRemove libuchardet-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libuchardet-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libuchardet-devDependencies
libuchardet-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libuchardet-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.