How To Install protoc-gen-go on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install protoc-gen-go on Kali Linux.

What is protoc-gen-go

protoc-gen-go is:

It augments the protoc compiler so that it knows how to generate Go specific code for a given .proto file.

This plugin is provided google.golang.org/protobuf module, aka the second major revision of the Go protocol buffer API. Compared to the old protoc-gen-go plugin (in golang-goprotobuf-dev package) provided by github.com/golang/protobuf module, it doesn’t support generating gRPC service definitions.

There are three methods to install protoc-gen-go 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 protoc-gen-go Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install protoc-gen-go

Install protoc-gen-go Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install protoc-gen-go using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install protoc-gen-go

Install protoc-gen-go 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 protoc-gen-go using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install protoc-gen-go

How To Uninstall protoc-gen-go on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the protoc-gen-go package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove protoc-gen-go

Uninstall protoc-gen-go And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove protoc-gen-go

Remove protoc-gen-go Configurations and Data

To remove protoc-gen-go configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge protoc-gen-go

Remove protoc-gen-go configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove protoc-gen-go configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge protoc-gen-go

Dependencies

protoc-gen-go have the following dependencies:

• libprotobuf-dev
• protobuf-compiler

References

• protoc-gen-go website

Summary

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