How To Install swig on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is swig

swig is:

SWIG is a compiler that makes it easy to integrate C and C++ code with other languages including Perl, Tcl, Ruby, Python, Java, Guile, Mzscheme, Chicken, OCaml, Pike, and C#.

Swig takes a set of ANSI C/C++ declarations and generates an interface for them to your favorite scripting language.

This is a dependency package providing the stable version of SWIG.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install swig

Install swig Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install swig

Install swig 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 swig using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install swig

How To Uninstall swig on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove swig

Uninstall swig And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove swig

Remove swig Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge swig

Remove swig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swig

Dependencies

swig have the following dependencies:

• swig4.0

References

• swig website

Summary

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