How To Install rust-lldb on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-lldb on Kali Linux.
What is rust-lldb
rust-lldb 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 pretty printers and a wrapper script for invoking lldb on rust binaries.
There are three methods to install rust-lldb 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-lldb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rust-lldb using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rust-lldbInstall rust-lldb Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rust-lldb using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rust-lldbInstall rust-lldb 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rust-lldb using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rust-lldbHow To Uninstall rust-lldb on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the rust-lldb package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rust-lldbUninstall rust-lldb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rust-lldb and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rust-lldbRemove rust-lldb Configurations and Data
To remove rust-lldb configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rust-lldbRemove rust-lldb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rust-lldb configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rust-lldbDependencies
rust-lldb have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rust-lldb package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
