How To Install snacc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install snacc on Kali Linux. snacc is ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler

Introduction

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

What is snacc

snacc is:

Snacc is short for “Sample Neufeld ASN.1 to C Compiler” and ASN.1 stands for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ITU-T X.208/ISO 8824). Snacc supports a subset of ASN.1 1988. If you need features of ASN.1 1992 or later, snacc is not for you.

Given an ASN.1 source file(s) snacc can produce:

  1. C routines for BER encoding, decoding, printing and freeing.
  2. C++ routines for BER encoding, decoding, and printing.
  3. A type table that can be used with C driver routines for BER encoding, decoding, printing and freeing.

If you want to build snacc based applications, you want to install the libsnacc-dev package, too. Your application will then depend on the snacc libraries, you find in the libsnacc0c2 package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install snacc

Install snacc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install snacc

Install snacc 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 snacc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install snacc

How To Uninstall snacc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove snacc

Uninstall snacc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove snacc

Remove snacc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge snacc

Remove snacc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snacc

Dependencies

snacc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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