How To Install tclxapian on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tclxapian

tclxapian is:

This package provides Xapian Tcl bindings which should work with any version of Tcl >= 8.1 (by using Tcl’s stubs mechanism.)

The Xapian search engine library is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It implements the probabilistic model of information retrieval, and provides facilities for performing ranked free-text searches, relevance feedback, phrase searching, boolean searching, stemming, and simultaneous update and searching. It is highly scalable, and is capable of working with collections containing hundreds of millions of documents.

The Xapian Tcl bindings provide an interface to the Xapian library from the Tcl programming language, allowing both indexing and retrieval operations.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tclxapian

Install tclxapian Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tclxapian

Install tclxapian 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 tclxapian using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tclxapian

How To Uninstall tclxapian on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tclxapian

Uninstall tclxapian And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tclxapian

Remove tclxapian Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tclxapian

Remove tclxapian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tclxapian

Dependencies

tclxapian have the following dependencies:

• tcl
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6
• libxapian30

References

• tclxapian website

Summary

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