How To Install primesieve on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is primesieve

primesieve 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 dummy package provides the standard installation.

There are three methods to install primesieve 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install primesieve

Install primesieve Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install primesieve

Install primesieve 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install primesieve

How To Uninstall primesieve on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove primesieve

Uninstall primesieve And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove primesieve

Remove primesieve Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge primesieve

Remove primesieve configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge primesieve

Dependencies

primesieve have the following dependencies:

• primesieve-bin

References

• primesieve website

Summary

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