How To Install skktools on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is skktools

skktools is:

This package provides tools to maintain dictionary files for SKK Japanese input systems.

SKK dictionary files are provided by the skkdic package and the skkdic-extra package. You can make a local dictionary file from them.

If you want to convert a dictionary file to cdb (DJB’s constant database), install the tinycdb package. To use the optional scripts, install the required tools, such as gawk, ruby, gauche, etc.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install skktools

Install skktools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install skktools

Install skktools 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 skktools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install skktools

How To Uninstall skktools on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove skktools

Uninstall skktools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove skktools

Remove skktools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge skktools

Remove skktools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skktools

Dependencies

skktools have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdb5.3
• libglib2.0-0

References

• skktools website

Summary

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