How to Install and Uninstall kafkacat Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "kafkacat" package

This is a short guide on how to install kafkacat on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall kafkacat on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                kafkacat
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the kafkacat package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: kafkacat
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Vincent Bernat
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 83
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), librdkafka1 (>= 1.4.2), libyajl2 (>= 2.0.4)
Filename: pool/universe/k/kafkacat/kafkacat_1.6.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 29020
MD5sum: bfa8c8ba5ee3382d7fd13c807aea027c
SHA1: 05843c73da4ebb49526d41b90e8c7f5edd027e29
SHA256: 90a34005dd23e522977c68cc56bda6a1310677ac3ca34900cfa9fb0b20bb141c
SHA512: 85afe2622fe3c2c35d1d0bee395a01d5fd5a01a675a5d148fdf0f8f1564638d45cc886df4e9229ba945731d79b2b7ae21ec05a93df7560b5936de11f932acf36
Homepage: https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat
Description-en: generic producer and consumer for Apache Kafka
kafkacat is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka
0.8, think of it as a netcat for Kafka.
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In producer mode kafkacat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a
configurable delimiter and produces them to the provided Kafka
cluster, topic and partition. In consumer mode kafkacat reads messages
from a topic and partition and prints them to stdout using the
configured message delimiter.
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kafkacat also features a Metadata list mode to display the current
state of the Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions.
Description-md5: 6bc5980bfc11bff8aedd9f84333c0509