How To Install e2fsck-static on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsck-static on Kali Linux.

What is e2fsck-static

e2fsck-static is:

This may be of some help to you if your filesystem gets corrupted enough to break the shared libraries used by the dynamically linked checker.

This binary takes much more space than its dynamic counterpart located in e2fsprogs, though.

You may want to install a statically-linked shell as well, to be able to run this program if something like your C library gets corrupted.

There are three methods to install e2fsck-static 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 e2fsck-static Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install e2fsck-static using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install e2fsck-static

Install e2fsck-static Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install e2fsck-static using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install e2fsck-static

Install e2fsck-static 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 e2fsck-static using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install e2fsck-static

How To Uninstall e2fsck-static on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the e2fsck-static package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove e2fsck-static

Uninstall e2fsck-static And Its Dependencies

To uninstall e2fsck-static and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove e2fsck-static

Remove e2fsck-static Configurations and Data

To remove e2fsck-static configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge e2fsck-static

Remove e2fsck-static configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove e2fsck-static configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge e2fsck-static

Dependencies

e2fsck-static have the following dependencies:

References

• e2fsck-static website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsck-static package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.