How To Install rust-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-doc on Kali Linux. rust-doc is Rust systems programming language - Documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-doc on Kali Linux.

What is rust-doc

rust-doc is:

Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries - both abstract and operational - that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency.

It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and meta-programming, in both static and dynamic styles.

This package contains the Rust tutorial, language reference and standard library documentation.

There are three methods to install rust-doc 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 rust-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rust-doc

Install rust-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rust-doc

Install rust-doc 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 rust-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rust-doc

How To Uninstall rust-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rust-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rust-doc

Uninstall rust-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rust-doc

Remove rust-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rust-doc

Remove rust-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rust-doc

Dependencies

rust-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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