How To Install libvendorlib-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libvendorlib-perl

libvendorlib-perl is:

In a system distribution such as Debian, it may be advisable for Perl programs to ignore the user’s CPAN-installed modules and only use the distribution-provided modules to avoid possible breakage with newer and unpackaged versions of modules.

To that end, this pragma will replace your @INC with only the core and vendor @INC paths, ignoring site_perl and $ENV{PERL5LIB} entirely.

It is recommended that you put ‘use vendorlib;’ as the first statement in your program, before even ‘use strict;’ and ‘use warnings;’.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvendorlib-perl

Install libvendorlib-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libvendorlib-perl

Install libvendorlib-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 libvendorlib-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvendorlib-perl

How To Uninstall libvendorlib-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libvendorlib-perl

Uninstall libvendorlib-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvendorlib-perl

Remove libvendorlib-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libvendorlib-perl

Remove libvendorlib-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvendorlib-perl

Dependencies

libvendorlib-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libvendorlib-perl website

Summary

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