How To Install discover on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is discover

discover is:

Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover2 library. Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can use to report a wide range of information about the hardware that is installed on a Linux system. In addition to reporting information, Discover includes support for doing hardware detection at boot time.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install discover

Install discover Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install discover

Install discover 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 discover using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install discover

How To Uninstall discover on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove discover

Uninstall discover And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove discover

Remove discover Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge discover

Remove discover configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge discover

Dependencies

discover have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdiscover2
• libexpat1
• libusb-0.1-4

References

• discover website

Summary

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