How To Install nacl-tools on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nacl-tools on Kali Linux.

What is nacl-tools

nacl-tools is:

NaCl (pronounced “salt”) is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc. NaCl’s goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools. Tools include basic programs to deploy CurveCP message-handling.

There are three methods to install nacl-tools 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 nacl-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install nacl-tools

Install nacl-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nacl-tools

Install nacl-tools 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 nacl-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nacl-tools

How To Uninstall nacl-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the nacl-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nacl-tools

Uninstall nacl-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nacl-tools

Remove nacl-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge nacl-tools

Remove nacl-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nacl-tools

Dependencies

nacl-tools have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• nacl-tools website

Summary

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