How to Install and Uninstall kafkacat Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "kafkacat" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install kafkacat on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall kafkacat on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: kafkacat
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 76
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Vincent Bernat
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2.0-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), librdkafka1 (>= 0.8.4), libyajl2 (>= 2.0.4)
Filename: pool/universe/k/kafkacat/kafkacat_1.2.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 16402
MD5sum: 471d9f7aeaa5fa055e12db200112db4f
SHA1: 1388968a999b6eb6aaf2026f00f36f986ea4f35b
SHA256: 34d79d900877af62b99989a115ec41e6c330fdaccb4485b260aca8d61ee8723e
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 delimeter 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: 0a76363df67d47b6dfea7c36ee0b5f8f
Homepage: https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu