How To Install rust-src on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is rust-src

rust-src 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 sources of the Rust compiler and standard libraries, useful for IDEs and code analysis tools such as Racer.

There are three methods to install rust-src 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-src 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-src using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install rust-src

Install rust-src Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rust-src

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

sudo aptitude -y install rust-src

How To Uninstall rust-src on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rust-src

Uninstall rust-src And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rust-src

Remove rust-src Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rust-src

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

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

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

Dependencies

rust-src have the following dependencies:

References

• rust-src website

Summary

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