How To Install duc on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is duc

duc is:

Duc maintains a database of accumulated sizes of directories of the file system, and allows you to query this database with some tools, or create fancy graphs showing you where your bytes are.

Duc comes with console utilities, ncursesw and X11 user interfaces and a CGI wrapper for disk usage querying and visualisation.

Duc is designed to scale to huge filesystems: it will index and display hundreds of millions of files on petabytes of storage without problems.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install duc

Install duc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install duc

Install duc 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 duc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install duc

How To Uninstall duc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove duc

Uninstall duc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove duc

Remove duc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge duc

Remove duc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge duc

Dependencies

duc have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcairo2
• libglib2.0-0
• libncursesw6
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• libtinfo6
• libtokyocabinet9
• libx11-6

References

• duc website

Summary

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