How to Install and Uninstall antiword Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 17,2025

1. Install "antiword" package

Please follow the instructions below to install antiword on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                antiword
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "antiword" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall antiword on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                antiword
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the antiword package on Kali Linux

Package: antiword
Version: 0.37-16
Installed-Size: 589
Maintainer: Olly Betts
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Size: 123172
SHA256: f26b6a843c0d42aa760f45e74e5abd5f9b7cb431803d19c51b6351777c95d12b
SHA1: 6d071463c9ea6d5722252892f39416f227b13923
MD5sum: c06da36f4fdc6c84b8da94f7bddfd3e0
Description: Converts MS Word files to text, PS, PDF and XML
Antiword is a free MS Word reader.
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It converts the binary files from MS Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000 and 2003 to text,
Postscript, PDF and XML.
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Note that it doesn't support the XML-based formats which newer MS Word
versions produce by default (.docx).
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::converting, works-with-format::pdf,
works-with-format::plaintext, works-with-format::postscript,
works-with::dtp, works-with::text
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.37-16_amd64.deb