How To Install cstocs on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install cstocs on Kali Linux. cstocs is Recoding utility and Czech sorter

Introduction

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

What is cstocs

cstocs is:

This is a utility which allows you to re-encode files between various encodings and sort Czech data. Some main features:

  • Written in Perl, providing appropriate Perl modules.
  • Supported encodings: ASCII, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, Microsoft cp1250 and cp1252, Mac, MacCE, PC Latin 2, Koi8-CS and TeX Cork (T1).
  • You can create your own encoding definition files and use them for recoding to any other defined encoding.
  • Single to single or single to many chars recodings are supported.
  • Sophisticated sorting algorithm for Czech.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cstocs

Install cstocs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cstocs

Install cstocs 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 cstocs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cstocs

How To Uninstall cstocs on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove cstocs

Uninstall cstocs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cstocs

Remove cstocs Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cstocs

Remove cstocs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cstocs

Dependencies

cstocs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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