How To Install proot on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is proot

proot is:

PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc.

This means that users don’t need any privileges or setup to do things like using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode.

Also, developers can add their own features or use PRoot as a Linux process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism.

Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available in every Linux kernel.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install proot

Install proot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install proot

Install proot 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 proot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install proot

How To Uninstall proot on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove proot

Uninstall proot And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove proot

Remove proot Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge proot

Remove proot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge proot

Dependencies

proot have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libtalloc2

References

• proot website

Summary

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