How To Install libblockdev-plugins-all on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-plugins-all
on Kali Linux.
What is libblockdev-plugins-all
libblockdev-plugins-all is:
libblockdev is a C library with GObject introspection support that can be used for doing low-level operations with block devices like setting up LVM, BTRFS, LUKS or MD RAID.
The library uses plugins (LVM, BTRFS,…) and serves as a thin wrapper around its plugins’ functionality.
This is a metapackage that depends on all libblockdev plugins.
There are three methods to install libblockdev-plugins-all
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 libblockdev-plugins-all Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libblockdev-plugins-all
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libblockdev-plugins-all
Install libblockdev-plugins-all Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libblockdev-plugins-all
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libblockdev-plugins-all
Install libblockdev-plugins-all 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 libblockdev-plugins-all
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libblockdev-plugins-all
How To Uninstall libblockdev-plugins-all on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libblockdev-plugins-all
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libblockdev-plugins-all
Uninstall libblockdev-plugins-all And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libblockdev-plugins-all
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libblockdev-plugins-all
Remove libblockdev-plugins-all Configurations and Data
To remove libblockdev-plugins-all
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libblockdev-plugins-all
Remove libblockdev-plugins-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libblockdev-plugins-all
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libblockdev-plugins-all
Dependencies
libblockdev-plugins-all have the following dependencies:
- libblockdev2
- libblockdev-btrfs2
- libblockdev-crypto2
- libblockdev-dm2
- libblockdev-fs2
- libblockdev-kbd2
- libblockdev-loop2
- libblockdev-lvm2
- libblockdev-lvm-dbus2
- libblockdev-mdraid2
- libblockdev-nvdimm2
- libblockdev-mpath2
- libblockdev-part2
- libblockdev-part-err2
- libblockdev-swap2
- libblockdev-utils2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-plugins-all
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.