How to Install and Uninstall libedit-dev Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "libedit-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install libedit-dev on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libedit-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libedit-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libedit-dev on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libedit-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libedit-dev package on Kali Linux

Package: libedit-dev
Source: libedit
Version: 3.1-20230828-1
Installed-Size: 500
Maintainer: LLVM Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libedit2 (= 3.1-20230828-1), libbsd-dev (>= 0.1.3), libncurses-dev | libtinfo-dev
Size: 113736
SHA256: e3c3a870ba59e1a148339cd58a0dcc44aead33f2671cc53e63ea5d4ae6cdada0
SHA1: bc31fe910eb2b4f9db608bb180222d14482d20f1
MD5sum: a2456b4b26bb4216dac9d27a09251204
Description: BSD editline and history libraries (development files)
Command line editor library provides generic line editing,
history, and tokenization functions.
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It slightly resembles GNU readline.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
Tag: devel::library, implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode,
role::devel-lib, role::program, suite::bsd, uitoolkit::ncurses,
use::editing
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libe/libedit/libedit-dev_3.1-20230828-1_amd64.deb