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

Last updated: April 26,2024

1. Install "librdkafka-dev" package

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


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall librdkafka-dev on Kali Linux:


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

Package: librdkafka-dev
Source: librdkafka
Version: 2.3.0-1
Installed-Size: 5138
Maintainer: Faidon Liambotis
Architecture: amd64
Depends: librdkafka++1 (= 2.3.0-1), librdkafka1 (= 2.3.0-1)
Size: 941628
SHA256: 6c93c036aca59f9719def1559d61aa9081e28fd7b086147619fa940028d68616
SHA1: 45e518201254617c80dfa962994bef4a67395a76
MD5sum: 6b8921ad0af30600f0eb1db8a8079875
Description: library implementing the Apache Kafka protocol (development headers)
librdkafka is a C library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol,
providing Producer, Consumer and Admin clients. It was designed with message
delivery reliability and high performance in mind, current figures exceed 1
million msgs/second for the producer and 3 million msgs/second for the
consumer.
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More information about Apache Kafka can be found at http://kafka.apache.org/
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This package contains the development headers.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libr/librdkafka/librdkafka-dev_2.3.0-1_amd64.deb