How to Install and Uninstall original-awk Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "original-awk" package

This is a short guide on how to install original-awk on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                original-awk
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "original-awk" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall original-awk on Kali Linux:


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

Package: original-awk
Version: 2023-11-27-1
Installed-Size: 179
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Provides: awk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Size: 71764
SHA256: 36f733ebe66fff900ead0710fbcfdc8e2d455e921b78c83eb5aa9a6a87da059e
SHA1: f743dead7e27b09e75913f8559882047f819cccf
MD5sum: f0aa74a2f032df2788c0b3672c14a186
Description: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming Language"
This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language",
Second Edition, by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger
(Addison-Wesley, 2024, ISBN-13 978-0138269722, ISBN-10 0138269726).
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning,
works-with::text
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2023-11-27-1_amd64.deb