How To Install dmsetup on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is dmsetup

dmsetup is:

The Linux Kernel Device Mapper is the LVM (Linux Logical Volume Management) Team’s implementation of a minimalistic kernel-space driver that handles volume management, while keeping knowledge of the underlying device layout in user-space. This makes it useful for not only LVM, but software raid, and other drivers that create “virtual” block devices.

This package contains a utility for modifying device mappings.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dmsetup

Install dmsetup Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dmsetup

Install dmsetup 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 dmsetup using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dmsetup

How To Uninstall dmsetup on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove dmsetup

Uninstall dmsetup And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dmsetup

Remove dmsetup Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge dmsetup

Remove dmsetup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dmsetup

Dependencies

dmsetup have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdevmapper1.02.1

References

• dmsetup website

Summary

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