How To Install davfs2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install davfs2 on Kali Linux.

What is davfs2

davfs2 is:

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), an extension to the HTTP-protocol, allows authoring of resources on a remote web server. davfs2 provides the ability to access such resources like a typical filesystem, allowing for use by standard applications with no built-in support for WebDAV.

davfs2 is designed to fully integrate into the filesystem semantics of Unix-like systems (mount, umount, et c.). davfs2 makes mounting by unprivileged users as easy and secure as possible.

davfs2 does extensive caching to make the file system responsive, to avoid unnecessary network traffic and to prevent data loss, and to cope for slow or unreliable connections.

davfs2 will work with most WebDAV servers needing little or no configuration.

There are three methods to install davfs2 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 davfs2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install davfs2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install davfs2

Install davfs2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install davfs2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install davfs2

Install davfs2 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 davfs2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install davfs2

How To Uninstall davfs2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the davfs2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove davfs2

Uninstall davfs2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall davfs2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove davfs2

Remove davfs2 Configurations and Data

To remove davfs2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge davfs2

Remove davfs2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove davfs2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge davfs2

Dependencies

davfs2 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libneon27
• debconf
• adduser

References

• davfs2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install davfs2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.