How To Install compartment on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install compartment on Kali Linux. compartment is Confine services in a limited environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compartment on Kali Linux.

What is compartment

compartment is:

Compartment was designed to allow safe execution of privileged and/or untrusted executables and services. It can execute a process:

  • Setting specific Linux capabilities
  • Chrooting it to a certain location
  • setting the user or group it will run with
  • running a program before it is executed These features can be used to minimize the risk of a trojanized or vulnerable program/service.

There are three methods to install compartment 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 compartment Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install compartment

Install compartment Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install compartment using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install compartment

Install compartment 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 compartment using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install compartment

How To Uninstall compartment on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the compartment package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove compartment

Uninstall compartment And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove compartment

Remove compartment Configurations and Data

To remove compartment configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge compartment

Remove compartment configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge compartment

Dependencies

compartment have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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