How To Install python3-xkcd on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xkcd on Kali Linux.

What is python3-xkcd

python3-xkcd is:

This is a Python library for accessing and retrieving links to comics from the xkcd webcomic by Randall Munroe. It is NOT endorsed or made by him, it??s an entirely independent project.

It makes use of the JSON interface to Randall??s site to retrieve comic data.

One can create comic objects manually using Comic(number), or can use the helper functions provided- getLatestComic(), getRandomComic(), and getComic()- to do this. Once you have a Comic object, you can access data from it using various provided methods.

This is the Python 3 version of the package.

There are three methods to install python3-xkcd 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 python3-xkcd Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-xkcd using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-xkcd

Install python3-xkcd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-xkcd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-xkcd

Install python3-xkcd 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 python3-xkcd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-xkcd

How To Uninstall python3-xkcd on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-xkcd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-xkcd

Uninstall python3-xkcd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-xkcd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-xkcd

Remove python3-xkcd Configurations and Data

To remove python3-xkcd configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-xkcd

Remove python3-xkcd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-xkcd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-xkcd

Dependencies

python3-xkcd have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• python3-xkcd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xkcd package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.