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

Last updated: December 18,2024

1. Install "libsodium-dev" package

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


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

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


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

Package: libsodium-dev
Source: libsodium
Version: 1.0.18-1
Installed-Size: 802
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libsodium23 (= 1.0.18-1)
Size: 179608
SHA256: a3cc98bda5ec9e3a751ee4dfd1f6881eb2a01339e8046df2eef0376ab71d87c6
SHA1: e5b4b9fd64026aef39eb53e8e37a7457c52cc36c
MD5sum: aa097dab59f3ca9776bd1bc9505cf834
Description: Network communication, cryptography and signaturing library - headers
NaCl (pronounced "salt") is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for
network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc.
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NaCl's goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build
higher-level cryptographic tools.
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Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl,
with a compatible API.
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This package provides development headers needed for applications that use
libsodium.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.libsodium.org/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libs/libsodium/libsodium-dev_1.0.18-1_amd64.deb