How To Install cpio-win32 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpio-win32 on Kali Linux.

What is cpio-win32

cpio-win32 is:

GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another. It handles a number of cpio formats as well as reading and writing tar files.

This is a win32 version of cpio. It’s meant to be used by the win32-loader component of Debian-Installer.

There are three methods to install cpio-win32 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 cpio-win32 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cpio-win32 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cpio-win32

Install cpio-win32 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cpio-win32 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cpio-win32

Install cpio-win32 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 cpio-win32 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cpio-win32

How To Uninstall cpio-win32 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the cpio-win32 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cpio-win32

Uninstall cpio-win32 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cpio-win32 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cpio-win32

Remove cpio-win32 Configurations and Data

To remove cpio-win32 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cpio-win32

Remove cpio-win32 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cpio-win32 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cpio-win32

Dependencies

cpio-win32 have the following dependencies:

References

• cpio-win32 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpio-win32 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.