How To Install isight-firmware-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install isight-firmware-tools on Kali Linux. isight-firmware-tools is tools for dealing with Apple iSight firmware

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install isight-firmware-tools on Kali Linux.

What is isight-firmware-tools

isight-firmware-tools is:

Apple Built-in iSight requires firmware that can be extracted from the Mac OS X USBVideo driver. This package provides tools for extracting the firmware from the driver and installing udev rules and tools to automatically load the firmware when needed.

A convenient tool for converting firmware binaries to Intel HEX format is also provided. This may be required later for use with a generic firmware loader such as fxload.

There are three methods to install isight-firmware-tools 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 isight-firmware-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install isight-firmware-tools

Install isight-firmware-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install isight-firmware-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install isight-firmware-tools

Install isight-firmware-tools 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 isight-firmware-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install isight-firmware-tools

How To Uninstall isight-firmware-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the isight-firmware-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove isight-firmware-tools

Uninstall isight-firmware-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove isight-firmware-tools

Remove isight-firmware-tools Configurations and Data

To remove isight-firmware-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge isight-firmware-tools

Remove isight-firmware-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove isight-firmware-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge isight-firmware-tools

Dependencies

isight-firmware-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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