How To Install primesieve-bin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install primesieve-bin on Kali Linux.

What is primesieve-bin

primesieve-bin is:

primesieve is a free software program and C/C++ library that generates primes using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. primesieve can generate primes and prime k-tuplets up to nearly 2^64.

See http://primesieve.org/ for more information.

This package provides the command line utility primesieve.

There are three methods to install primesieve-bin 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 primesieve-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install primesieve-bin

Install primesieve-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install primesieve-bin

Install primesieve-bin 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 primesieve-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install primesieve-bin

How To Uninstall primesieve-bin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the primesieve-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove primesieve-bin

Uninstall primesieve-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove primesieve-bin

Remove primesieve-bin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge primesieve-bin

Remove primesieve-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge primesieve-bin

Dependencies

primesieve-bin have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libprimesieve9
• libstdc++6

References

• primesieve-bin website

Summary

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