How To Install tcl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tcl

tcl is:

Tcl is a powerful, easy to use, embeddable, cross-platform interpreted scripting language.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Tcl version (currently 8.6).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tcl

Install tcl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tcl

Install tcl 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 tcl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tcl

How To Uninstall tcl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tcl

Uninstall tcl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tcl

Remove tcl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tcl

Remove tcl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tcl

Dependencies

tcl have the following dependencies:

• tcl8.6

References

• tcl website

Summary

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