How To Install hexyl on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexyl on Ubuntu.
What is hexyl
hexyl is:
hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).
This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “hexyl”:
- hexyl
There are three methods to install hexyl on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hexyl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hexyl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hexyl
Install hexyl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hexyl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hexyl
Install hexyl 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hexyl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hexyl
How To Uninstall hexyl on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the hexyl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hexyl
Uninstall hexyl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hexyl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hexyl
Remove hexyl Configurations and Data
To remove hexyl configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hexyl
Remove hexyl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hexyl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hexyl
Dependencies
hexyl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexyl package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.