How To Install libxml-twig-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libxml-twig-perl

libxml-twig-perl is:

The XML::Twig module provides a way to process XML documents. It is built on top of XML::Parser.

The module offers a tree interface to the document, while allowing to output the parts of it that have been completely processed.

It allows minimal resource (CPU and memory) usage by building the tree only for the parts of the documents that need actual processing, through the use of the twig_roots and twig_print_outside_roots options. The finish and finish_print methods also help to increase performance.

XML::Twig tries to make simple things easy so it tries its best to takes care of a lot of the (usually) annoying (but sometimes necessary) features that come with XML and XML::Parser.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxml-twig-perl

Install libxml-twig-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libxml-twig-perl

Install libxml-twig-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 libxml-twig-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxml-twig-perl

How To Uninstall libxml-twig-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libxml-twig-perl

Uninstall libxml-twig-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxml-twig-perl

Remove libxml-twig-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libxml-twig-perl

Remove libxml-twig-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxml-twig-perl

Dependencies

libxml-twig-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libxml-twig-perl website

Summary

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