How To Install bilibop-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bilibop-common on Kali Linux.

What is bilibop-common

bilibop-common is:

Bilibop helps to maintain a Debian GNU/Linux operating system installed on an external media (USB, FireWire, Flash memory, eSATA). It hardens standard rules and policies to make the system more robust in this particular situation.

This package provides shell functions usable by other bilibop scripts on the running system or into the initramfs environment. These functions use /dev, /proc and /sys databases to output the drive name or the partition hosting the running system, and are fully usable by any unprivileged user or application. Dm-crypt, LVM, loop devices, aufs and overlay root filesystems (and almost any combination of them) are supported. A ‘drivemap’ command is also provided, to show block devices in a tree of dependencies.

There are three methods to install bilibop-common 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 bilibop-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bilibop-common

Install bilibop-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bilibop-common

Install bilibop-common 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 bilibop-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bilibop-common

How To Uninstall bilibop-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the bilibop-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bilibop-common

Uninstall bilibop-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bilibop-common

Remove bilibop-common Configurations and Data

To remove bilibop-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bilibop-common

Remove bilibop-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bilibop-common

Dependencies

bilibop-common have the following dependencies:

• udev

References

• bilibop-common website

Summary

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