How To Install ddrescue on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ddrescue

ddrescue is:

When your disk has crashed and you try to copy it over to another one, standard Unix tools like cp, cat, and dd will abort on every I/O error, dd_rescue does not. It optimizes copying by using large blocks as long as no errors occur and falls back to smaller blocks. It supports reverse direction copying (to approach a bad spot from the top), sparse copying, preallocating space, splice zerocopy, and bypassing the kernel pagecache with O_DIRECT. dd_rescue provides safe deletion of data by overwriting files (or better partitions/disks) multiple times with fast random numbers. With the ddr_hash plugin, it supports calculating a hash value (such as a sha256sum) or an HMAC during copying.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ddrescue

Install ddrescue Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ddrescue

Install ddrescue 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 ddrescue using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ddrescue

How To Uninstall ddrescue on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ddrescue

Uninstall ddrescue And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ddrescue

Remove ddrescue Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ddrescue

Remove ddrescue configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ddrescue

Dependencies

ddrescue have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• liblzo2-2
• libssl1.1

References

• ddrescue website

Summary

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