How To Install uniutils on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install uniutils on Kali Linux. uniutils is Tools for finding out what is in a Unicode file

Introduction

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

What is uniutils

uniutils is:

Useful tools when working with Unicode files when one doesn’t know the writing system, doesn’t have the necessary font, needs to inspect invisible characters, needs to find out whether characters have been combined or in what order they occur, or needs statistics on which characters occur.

  • uniname defaults to printing the character offset of each character, its byte offset, its hex code value, its encoding, the glyph itself, and its name. It may also be used to validate UTF-8 input.
  • unidesc reports the character ranges to which different portions of the text belong. It can also be used to identify Unicode encodings (e.g. UTF-16be) flagged by magic numbers.
  • unihist generates a histogram of the characters in its input.
  • ExplicateUTF8 is intended for debugging or for learning about Unicode. It determines and explains the validity of a sequence of bytes as a UTF8 encoding.
  • utf8lookup provides a handy way to look up Unicode characters from the command line.
  • unireverse reverse each line of UTF-8 input character-by-character.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install uniutils

Install uniutils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install uniutils

Install uniutils 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 uniutils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install uniutils

How To Uninstall uniutils on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove uniutils

Uninstall uniutils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove uniutils

Remove uniutils Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge uniutils

Remove uniutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uniutils

Dependencies

uniutils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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