How To Install libyahc-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libyahc-perl

libyahc-perl is:

YAHC is fast & minimal low-level asynchronous HTTP client intended to be used where you control both the client and the server. Is especially suits cases where set of requests need to be executed against group of machines.

It is NOT a general HTTP user agent, it doesn’t support redirects, proxies and any number of other advanced HTTP features like (in roughly descending order of feature completeness) LWP::UserAgent, WWW::Curl, HTTP::Tiny, HTTP::Lite or Furl. YAHC is basically one step above manually talking HTTP over sockets.

YAHC supports SSL and socket reuse (latter is in experimental mode).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libyahc-perl

Install libyahc-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libyahc-perl

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

sudo aptitude -y install libyahc-perl

How To Uninstall libyahc-perl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libyahc-perl

Uninstall libyahc-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libyahc-perl

Remove libyahc-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libyahc-perl

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

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

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

Dependencies

libyahc-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libev-perl
• libio-socket-ssl-perl

References

• libyahc-perl website

Summary

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