How To Install yodl on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is yodl

yodl is:

Yodl is a package that implements a pre-document language and tools to process it. The idea of Yodl is that you write up a document in a pre-language, then use the tools (e.g. yodl2html) to convert it to some final document language. Current converters are for HTML, man, LaTeX SGML and texinfo, a poor-man’s text converter and an experimental xml converter. Main document types are “article”, “report”, “book”, “manpage” and “letter”. The Yodl document language was designed to be easy to use and extensible.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yodl

Install yodl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install yodl

Install yodl 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 yodl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yodl

How To Uninstall yodl on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove yodl

Uninstall yodl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yodl

Remove yodl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge yodl

Remove yodl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yodl

Dependencies

yodl have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6

References

• yodl website

Summary

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