How To Install capstone-tool on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone-tool on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is capstone-tool
capstone-tool is:
Capstone is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework.
This package contains cstool, a command-line tool to disassemble hexadecimal strings.
There are three methods to install capstone-tool on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install capstone-tool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install capstone-tool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install capstone-tool
Install capstone-tool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install capstone-tool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install capstone-tool
Install capstone-tool Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install capstone-tool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install capstone-tool
How To Uninstall capstone-tool on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the capstone-tool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove capstone-tool
Uninstall capstone-tool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall capstone-tool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove capstone-tool
Remove capstone-tool Configurations and Data
To remove capstone-tool configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge capstone-tool
Remove capstone-tool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove capstone-tool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge capstone-tool
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone-tool package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
