How To Install dietlibc-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install dietlibc-doc on Kali Linux. dietlibc-doc is diet libc documentation - a libc optimized for small size

Introduction

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

What is dietlibc-doc

dietlibc-doc is:

The diet libc is a C library that is optimized for small size. It can be used to create small statically linked binaries for Linux on alpha, arm, ia64, mips, mipsel, ppc, parisc, s390, sparc and x86.

This package contains the documentation for the diet libc.

There are three methods to install dietlibc-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 dietlibc-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 dietlibc-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install dietlibc-doc

Install dietlibc-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dietlibc-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install dietlibc-doc

How To Uninstall dietlibc-doc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove dietlibc-doc

Uninstall dietlibc-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dietlibc-doc

Remove dietlibc-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge dietlibc-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

dietlibc-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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