How To Install ucd-generate on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucd-generate on Kali Linux.

What is ucd-generate

ucd-generate is:

A command line tool to generate Unicode tables in Rust source code.

Tables can typically be generated in one of three formats: a sorted sequence of character ranges, a finite state transducer or a compressed trie. Full support for name canonicalization is also provided. This tool also supports serializing regular expressions as DFAs using the regex-automata crate.

This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “ucd-generate”:

• ucd-generate

There are three methods to install ucd-generate 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 ucd-generate Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ucd-generate

Install ucd-generate Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ucd-generate

Install ucd-generate 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 ucd-generate using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ucd-generate

How To Uninstall ucd-generate on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ucd-generate package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ucd-generate

Uninstall ucd-generate And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ucd-generate

Remove ucd-generate Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ucd-generate

Remove ucd-generate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ucd-generate

Dependencies

ucd-generate have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1

References

• ucd-generate website

Summary

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