How To Install lscolors on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lscolors

lscolors is:

This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “lscolors”:

• lscolors

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lscolors

Install lscolors Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lscolors

Install lscolors 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 lscolors using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lscolors

How To Uninstall lscolors on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lscolors

Uninstall lscolors And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lscolors

Remove lscolors Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lscolors

Remove lscolors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lscolors

Dependencies

lscolors have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1

References

• lscolors website

Summary

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