How To Install uuid-config on Kali Linux

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install libossp-uuid-dev

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is uuid-config and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Kali Linux. This guide was written specifically with a server running Kali Linux in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install uuid-config on Kali Linux. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install uuid-config using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install uuid-config using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libossp-uuid-dev

Install uuid-config using apt

Because uuid-config is available in Kali Linux’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install uuid-config using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libossp-uuid-dev

Install uuid-config using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude 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 aptitude database, You can install uuid-config by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libossp-uuid-dev

How to upgrade (update) a single package uuid-config using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the uuid-config, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install libossp-uuid-dev

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install libossp-uuid-dev

How To Uninstall uuid-config from Kali Linux

To uninstall only the uuid-config package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libossp-uuid-dev

Uninstall uuid-config and all its dependencies

To uninstall uuid-config and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libossp-uuid-dev

Remove uuid-config with all configurations and data

To remove uuid-config configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libossp-uuid-dev

Remove uuid-config completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to uuid-config package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libossp-uuid-dev

Extra info and code examples

OSSP uuid is an ISO-C and Perl application programming interface (API) and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE 1.1 and ISO/IEC 11578:1996 compliant Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and node based), version 3 (name based) and version 4 (random number based). UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very persistent objects across a network. This package contains the development environment for the ossp-uuid library.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install uuid-config using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the uuid-config from Kali Linux.

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