How To Install ark on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on Kali Linux.
What is ark
ark is:
Ark manages various archive formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, rar and zip, as well as CD-ROM images. Ark can be used to browse, extract, create, and modify archives.
This package is part of the KDE SC utilities module.
There are three methods to install ark 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 ark Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ark using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install arkInstall ark Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ark using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install arkInstall ark 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 ark using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install arkHow To Uninstall ark on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ark package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove arkUninstall ark And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ark and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove arkRemove ark Configurations and Data
To remove ark configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge arkRemove ark configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ark configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arkDependencies
ark have the following dependencies:
- kinit
- kio
- libarchive13
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libkf5archive5
- libkf5completion5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configgui5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5crash5
- libkf5dbusaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5jobwidgets5
- libkf5kiocore5
- libkf5kiofilewidgets5
- libkf5kiogui5
- libkf5kiowidgets5
- libkf5parts5
- libkf5pty5
- libkf5service-bin
- libkf5service5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
- libzip4
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ark package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.