How To Install tagcoll on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tagcoll on Kali Linux.

What is tagcoll

tagcoll is:

tagcoll takes a collection of items categorized with multiple tags and
performs various kinds of operations on them:

• organize the collection in an intuitively navigable hierarchy;
• discover and show implicit hierarchical relationships between
  tags;
• apply various transformations to the collection
• produce a special patch file with the differencies between two collections.
  Such patch files are specific to tagged collections, and can be applied and
  merged more freely than normal diff output;
• apply a previously generated patch file to a collection.

tagcoll has been written with the purpose of studying tagged collections and
experiment with tagged collection algorithms.

There are three methods to install tagcoll on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tagcoll Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tagcoll using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tagcoll

Install tagcoll Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tagcoll using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tagcoll

Install tagcoll Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tagcoll using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tagcoll

How To Uninstall tagcoll on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tagcoll package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tagcoll

Uninstall tagcoll And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tagcoll and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tagcoll

Remove tagcoll Configurations and Data

To remove tagcoll configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tagcoll

Remove tagcoll configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tagcoll configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tagcoll

Dependencies

tagcoll have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• tagcoll website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tagcoll package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.