How To Install libwebauth12 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebauth12 on Kali Linux. libwebauth12 is Shared libraries for WebAuth authentication

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebauth12 on Kali Linux.

What is libwebauth12

libwebauth12 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 shared library used by the WebAuth modules, Perl bindings, and command-line utilities. It does token encoding and decoding and other lower-level parts of the WebAuth protocol.

There are three methods to install libwebauth12 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 libwebauth12 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libwebauth12 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libwebauth12

Install libwebauth12 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libwebauth12 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libwebauth12

Install libwebauth12 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 libwebauth12 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libwebauth12

How To Uninstall libwebauth12 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libwebauth12 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libwebauth12

Uninstall libwebauth12 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libwebauth12 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwebauth12

Remove libwebauth12 Configurations and Data

To remove libwebauth12 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libwebauth12

Remove libwebauth12 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libwebauth12 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwebauth12

Dependencies

libwebauth12 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebauth12 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.