How To Install clonezilla on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clonezilla on Kali Linux.
What is clonezilla
clonezilla is:
Clonezilla is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution with unicasting and multicasting.
Clonezilla, based on drbl, partclone and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. This package provides Clonezilla SE (server edition) which is for massive deployment: it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.
Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC’s Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting.
There are three methods to install clonezilla 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 clonezilla Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install clonezilla using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clonezillaInstall clonezilla Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install clonezilla using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clonezillaInstall clonezilla 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 clonezilla using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clonezillaHow To Uninstall clonezilla on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the clonezilla package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clonezillaUninstall clonezilla And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clonezilla and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clonezillaRemove clonezilla Configurations and Data
To remove clonezilla configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clonezillaRemove clonezilla configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clonezilla configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clonezillaDependencies
clonezilla have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clonezilla package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.