How To Install libuchardet-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuchardet-dev on Kali Linux. libuchardet-dev is universal charset detection library - development files

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 update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libuchardet-dev

Install libuchardet-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libuchardet-dev

Install 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install libuchardet-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libuchardet-dev

How 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-dev

Uninstall 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-dev

Remove 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-dev

Remove 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-dev

Dependencies

libuchardet-dev have the following dependencies:

References

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.