How To Install clevis-luks on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-luks on Kali Linux.

What is clevis-luks

clevis-luks is:

This package allows binding a LUKS encrytped volume to a clevis unlocking policy. For automated unlocking, an unlocker will also be required. See, for example, clevis-dracut and clevis-udisks2.

There are three methods to install clevis-luks 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 clevis-luks Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install clevis-luks

Install clevis-luks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install clevis-luks

Install clevis-luks 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 clevis-luks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clevis-luks

How To Uninstall clevis-luks on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the clevis-luks package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove clevis-luks

Uninstall clevis-luks And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clevis-luks

Remove clevis-luks Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge clevis-luks

Remove clevis-luks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clevis-luks

Dependencies

clevis-luks have the following dependencies:

• clevis
• cryptsetup-bin
• luksmeta

References

• clevis-luks website

Summary

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