How to Install and Uninstall kcat Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 25,2024

1. Install "kcat" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install kcat on Kali Linux


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall kcat on Kali Linux:


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

Package: kcat
Source: kafkacat
Version: 1.7.1-3
Installed-Size: 97
Maintainer: Vincent Bernat
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), librdkafka1 (>= 1.6.0), libyajl2 (>= 2.0.4)
Size: 34324
SHA256: a4201d0084eb68ecd3f7b657e5e1f20ded20a7dbdf367a099e662a51f68f56d5
SHA1: 7712f0edad4269deb8be5c10475b5026b1244d62
MD5sum: 96c23df121592217763f11e4817ecc89
Description: producer and consumer for Apache Kafka
kcat is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka
0.8, think of it as a netcat for Kafka.
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In producer mode kcat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a
configurable delimiter and produces them to the provided Kafka
cluster, topic and partition. In consumer mode kcat reads messages
from a topic and partition and prints them to stdout using the
configured message delimiter.
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kcat also features a Metadata list mode to display the current
state of the Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/edenhill/kcat
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/k/kafkacat/kcat_1.7.1-3_amd64.deb