How To Install libwebauth-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libwebauth-perl

libwebauth-perl is:

WebAuth is a cookie-based web authentication system built on top of Kerberos. It relies on a central authentication server that handles all user authentication for a domain and creates user authentication credentials for any web server that needs strong authentication.

This package contains the Perl bindings to the WebAuth library, which does token encoding and decoding and other lower-level parts of the WebAuth protocol.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwebauth-perl

Install libwebauth-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libwebauth-perl

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

sudo aptitude -y install libwebauth-perl

How To Uninstall libwebauth-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libwebauth-perl

Uninstall libwebauth-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwebauth-perl

Remove libwebauth-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libwebauth-perl

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

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

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

Dependencies

libwebauth-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• perlapi-5.32.0
• libc6
• libwebauth12

References

• libwebauth-perl website

Summary

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