How To Install oz on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install oz on Kali Linux. oz is Install virtual machine guest OSs with minimal input from the user

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oz on Kali Linux.

What is oz

oz is:

Oz is a tool for automatically installing guest OSs with only minimal up-front input from the user.

For each type of guest operating system, Oz supports up to three operations: operating system installation (oz-install), operating system customization (oz-customize), and ICICLE manifest generation (oz-generate-icicle).

Currently many versions of popular operating systems are supported, including Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandrake, and FreeBSD. See also virt-install(1) and virt-builder(1) from the virtinst and libguestfs-tools packages.

There are three methods to install oz 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 oz Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install oz

Install oz Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install oz using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install oz

Install oz 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 oz using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oz

How To Uninstall oz on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the oz package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove oz

Uninstall oz And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oz

Remove oz Configurations and Data

To remove oz configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge oz

Remove oz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove oz configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oz

Dependencies

oz have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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