How To Install cowdancer on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is cowdancer

cowdancer is:

Tries to make copy-on-write semantics upon hard-link copied directory trees generated with ‘cp -la’

‘cow-shell’ command invokes a shell session. Within that session, under the directory cow-shell was invoked, cowdancer will create a new file when existing i-nodes are opened for write. Useful for quick scratch workspace and experimentation.

For a useful Debian tool, try cowbuilder.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cowdancer

Install cowdancer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cowdancer

Install cowdancer 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 cowdancer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cowdancer

How To Uninstall cowdancer on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove cowdancer

Uninstall cowdancer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cowdancer

Remove cowdancer Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cowdancer

Remove cowdancer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cowdancer

Dependencies

cowdancer have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• cowdancer website

Summary

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