How To Install ddrescueview on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ddrescueview

ddrescueview is:

This small tool allows the user to graphically examine ddrescue’s map files in a user friendly GUI application. The Main window displays a block grid with each block’s color representing the block types it contains. Many people know this type of view from defragmentation programs.

Features:

• Display ddrescue map in a colored block graphic
• Examine each block in the image, see a detailed list of map entries contained
• To keep track of the rescue process, ddrescueview can automatically re-read the mapfile
• Units can be displayed with decimal (KB, MB…) or binary (KiB, MiB…) prefixes

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ddrescueview

Install ddrescueview Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ddrescueview

Install ddrescueview 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 ddrescueview using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ddrescueview

How To Uninstall ddrescueview on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ddrescueview

Uninstall ddrescueview And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ddrescueview

Remove ddrescueview Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ddrescueview

Remove ddrescueview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ddrescueview

Dependencies

ddrescueview have the following dependencies:

• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk2.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libx11-6

References

• ddrescueview website

Summary

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