How to Install and Uninstall libpcre3 Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "libpcre3" package

Please follow the guidance below to install libpcre3 on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libpcre3
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libpcre3" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall libpcre3 on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libpcre3
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libpcre3 package on Kali Linux

Package: libpcre3
Source: pcre3 (2:8.39-15)
Version: 2:8.39-15+b1
Installed-Size: 685
Maintainer: Matthew Vernon
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Conflicts: libpcre3-dev (<= 4.3-3)
Breaks: approx (<< 4.4-1~), cduce (<< 0.5.3-2~), cmigrep (<< 1.5-7~), galax (<< 1.1-7~), libpcre-ocaml (<< 6.0.1~), liquidsoap (<< 0.9.2-3~), ocsigen (<< 1.3.3-1~)
Size: 341648
SHA256: 241cbe4fe9a62b5db9feffbf16c09112e44cda064e93116da744788659ebfd40
SHA1: b8cceaeef4051251f05a086dce8bcd71c4732889
MD5sum: c0f1df4589b73f8c48202e69ea87387a
Description: Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - runtime files
This is a library of functions to support regular expressions whose syntax
and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language.
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New packages should use the newer pcre2 packages, and existing
packages should migrate to pcre2.
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This package contains the runtime libraries.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_8.39-15+b1_amd64.deb