How To Install recutils on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is recutils

recutils is:

GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles.

The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields.

Despite its simplicity, recfiles can be used to store medium-sized databases.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install recutils

Install recutils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install recutils

Install recutils 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 recutils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install recutils

How To Uninstall recutils on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove recutils

Uninstall recutils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove recutils

Remove recutils Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge recutils

Remove recutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge recutils

Dependencies

recutils have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcrypt20
• libreadline8
• librec1

References

• recutils website

Summary

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