How To Install umview-mod-viewfs on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install umview-mod-viewfs on Kali Linux.

What is umview-mod-viewfs

umview-mod-viewfs is:

View-OS is a novel approach to the process/kernel interface. The semantics of each system call can be assigned process by process giving the user the right to decide which view of the system each process has to join. Each process can “see” a different file system structure, networking resources, processor, devices. Moreover some of the resources can be provided by the user him/herself, thus these resource can be private to the single process and are not known a priori by the system. Groups of processes can share the same view but this is just an optimization to share management methods.

For more information, see http://wiki.virtualsquare.org

UMView is a user-mode implementation of View-OS. Processes are run with a controlling daemon that captures all the system calls (at present using the ptrace() system call) and uses dynamically loadable modules to change their semantic.

This package contains (very experimental) modules that allow filesystem namespace mangling (as hiding some portions of the filesystem, creating COW subtrees and so on).

There are three methods to install umview-mod-viewfs 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 umview-mod-viewfs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install umview-mod-viewfs

Install umview-mod-viewfs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install umview-mod-viewfs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install umview-mod-viewfs

Install umview-mod-viewfs 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 umview-mod-viewfs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install umview-mod-viewfs

How To Uninstall umview-mod-viewfs on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the umview-mod-viewfs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove umview-mod-viewfs

Uninstall umview-mod-viewfs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove umview-mod-viewfs

Remove umview-mod-viewfs Configurations and Data

To remove umview-mod-viewfs configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge umview-mod-viewfs

Remove umview-mod-viewfs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove umview-mod-viewfs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge umview-mod-viewfs

Dependencies

umview-mod-viewfs have the following dependencies:

• libumlib0
• libc6

References

• umview-mod-viewfs website

Summary

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