How To Install xen-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xen-doc on Kali Linux.

What is xen-doc

xen-doc is:

Documentation for the Xen hypervisor and surrounding software, including descriptions of the hypercall interfaces and of some of the library APIs.

You do not need this package for the primary manpages for the Xen control utilities, as those are in the xen-utils-common package.

There are three methods to install xen-doc 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 xen-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install xen-doc

Install xen-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install xen-doc

Install xen-doc 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 xen-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xen-doc

How To Uninstall xen-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the xen-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xen-doc

Uninstall xen-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xen-doc

Remove xen-doc Configurations and Data

To remove xen-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge xen-doc

Remove xen-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xen-doc

Dependencies

xen-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• xen-doc website

Summary

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