How To Install uudeview on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is uudeview

uudeview is:

This is a command-line decoder and encoder for multi-part MIME files encoded with the following formats: uuencode, xxencode, BASE64, yEncoding, quoted printable, and BinHex.

This package used to contain an X11-based GUI decoder called xdeview. That program is now in the xdeview package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install uudeview

Install uudeview Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install uudeview

Install uudeview 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 uudeview using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install uudeview

How To Uninstall uudeview on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove uudeview

Uninstall uudeview And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove uudeview

Remove uudeview Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge uudeview

Remove uudeview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uudeview

Dependencies

uudeview have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libuu0

References

• uudeview website

Summary

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