How To Install libuutf-ocaml on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libuutf-ocaml

libuutf-ocaml is:

Uutf is an non-blocking streaming Unicode codec for OCaml to decode and encode the UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE encoding schemes. It can efficiently work character by character without blocking on IO. Decoders perform character position tracking and support newline normalization.

Functions are also provided to fold over the characters of UTF encoded OCaml string values and to directly encode characters in OCaml Buffer.t values

This package contains dynamically loadable modules for plugins.

There are three methods to install libuutf-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 libuutf-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 libuutf-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libuutf-ocaml

Install libuutf-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libuutf-ocaml

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

sudo aptitude -y install libuutf-ocaml

How To Uninstall libuutf-ocaml on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libuutf-ocaml

Uninstall libuutf-ocaml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libuutf-ocaml

Remove libuutf-ocaml Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libuutf-ocaml

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

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

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

Dependencies

libuutf-ocaml have the following dependencies:

• ocaml-base-nox-4.11.1

References

• libuutf-ocaml website

Summary

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