How To Install odt2txt on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install odt2txt on Kali Linux.

What is odt2txt

odt2txt is:

odt2txt is a command-line tool which extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts, as produced by OpenOffice.org, KOffice, StarOffice and others.

odt2txt can also extract text from some file formats similar to OpenDocument Text, such as OpenOffice.org XML (.sxw), which was used by OpenOffice.org version 1.x and older StarOffice versions. To a lesser extend, odt2txt may be useful to extract content from OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods) and OpenDocument presentations (*.odp).

It is small and fast, can output the document in many encodings and adopts to your locale.

There are three methods to install odt2txt 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 odt2txt Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install odt2txt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install odt2txt

Install odt2txt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install odt2txt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install odt2txt

Install odt2txt 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 odt2txt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install odt2txt

How To Uninstall odt2txt on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the odt2txt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove odt2txt

Uninstall odt2txt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall odt2txt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove odt2txt

Remove odt2txt Configurations and Data

To remove odt2txt configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge odt2txt

Remove odt2txt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove odt2txt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge odt2txt

Dependencies

odt2txt have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• zlib1g

References

• odt2txt website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install odt2txt package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.