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

Last updated: February 17,2025

1. Install "libprimesieve-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libprimesieve-dev on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libprimesieve-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libprimesieve-dev on Kali Linux:


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

Package: libprimesieve-dev
Source: primesieve
Version: 11.2+ds-2
Installed-Size: 513
Maintainer: Debian Math Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libprimesieve7-dev
Depends: libprimesieve11 (= 11.2+ds-2), libprimesieve-dev-common (= 11.2+ds-2)
Suggests: primesieve-doc (= 11.2+ds-2), pkg-config
Breaks: libprimesieve7-dev
Size: 110540
SHA256: 43e90c957ffeacd2ede47bf36fa0810d549be8f8d292433fe55f10070f54262f
SHA1: d2d62ca7d3adcc8be48486a5ae9bf519eef206ae
MD5sum: 7306b19bdf2fb659221b95fa53dc41a6
Description: fast prime number generator C/C++ library -- libdev
primesieve is a free software program and C/C++ library that generates
primes using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation.
primesieve can generate primes and prime k-tuplets up to nearly 2^64.
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See http://primesieve.org/ for more information.
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This package provides the static library and symbolic links needed
for development.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/primesieve/libprimesieve-dev_11.2+ds-2_amd64.deb