How To Install libsquashfs-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquashfs-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libsquashfs-dev
libsquashfs-dev is:
SquashFS is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux, optimized for small size and high packing density. It is widely used in embedded systems and bootable live media.
SquashFS supports many different compression formats, such as zstd, xz, zlib or lzo for both data and metadata compression. It has many features expected from popular filesystems, such as extended attributes and support for NFS export.
As the name suggests, this is not the original user space tooling for SquashFS. Here are some of the features that primarily distinguish this package from the original:
- reproducible SquashFS images, i.e. deterministic packing without any local time stamps,
- Linux
gen_init_cpiolike file listing for micro managing the file system contents, permissions, and ownership without having to replicate the file system (and especially permissions) locally, - support for SELinux contexts file (see selabel_file(5)) to generate SELinux labels.
This package contains the C development headers and library files needed to compile programs using the squashfs-tools-ng library.
There are three methods to install libsquashfs-dev 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 libsquashfs-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libsquashfs-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsquashfs-devInstall libsquashfs-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libsquashfs-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsquashfs-devInstall libsquashfs-dev 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libsquashfs-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsquashfs-devHow To Uninstall libsquashfs-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libsquashfs-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsquashfs-devUninstall libsquashfs-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsquashfs-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsquashfs-devRemove libsquashfs-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libsquashfs-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsquashfs-devRemove libsquashfs-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsquashfs-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsquashfs-devDependencies
libsquashfs-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquashfs-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
