How To Install tfdocgen on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tfdocgen

tfdocgen is:

The tfdocgen program is a program used by the libti2 libraries to generate their HTML documentation from sources and misc files. You don’t need this package unless you want to develop on the libti2 libraries.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tfdocgen

Install tfdocgen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tfdocgen

Install tfdocgen 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 tfdocgen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tfdocgen

How To Uninstall tfdocgen on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tfdocgen

Uninstall tfdocgen And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tfdocgen

Remove tfdocgen Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tfdocgen

Remove tfdocgen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tfdocgen

Dependencies

tfdocgen have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libglib2.0-0

References

• tfdocgen website

Summary

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