How To Install make-guile on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install make-guile on Kali Linux.

What is make-guile

make-guile is:

GNU Make is a utility which controls the generation of executables and other target files of a program from the program’s source files. It determines automatically which pieces of a large program need to be (re)created, and issues the commands to (re)create them. Make can be used to organize any task in which targets (files) are to be automatically updated based on input files whenever the corresponding input is newer — it is not limited to building computer programs. Indeed, Make is a general purpose dependency solver. This variant has built in guile support

There are three methods to install make-guile 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 make-guile Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install make-guile

Install make-guile Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install make-guile

Install make-guile 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 make-guile using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install make-guile

How To Uninstall make-guile on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the make-guile package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove make-guile

Uninstall make-guile And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove make-guile

Remove make-guile Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge make-guile

Remove make-guile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge make-guile

Dependencies

make-guile have the following dependencies:

• guile-3.0-libs
• libc6

References

• make-guile website

Summary

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