How To Install f3 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install f3 on Kali Linux. f3 is test real flash memory capacity

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install f3 on Kali Linux.

What is f3

f3 is:

F3 (Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) tests the full capacity of a flash card (flash drive, flash disk, pendrive).

F3 writes to the card and then checks if can read it. It will assure you have not been bought a card with a smaller capacity than stated. Note that the main goal of F3 is not to fix your removable media. However, there are resources to mark the invalid areas.

This package provides these executables: f3write, f3read, f3brew, f3fix and f3probe.

There are three methods to install f3 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 f3 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install f3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install f3

Install f3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install f3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install f3

Install f3 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 f3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install f3

How To Uninstall f3 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the f3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove f3

Uninstall f3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall f3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove f3

Remove f3 Configurations and Data

To remove f3 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge f3

Remove f3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove f3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge f3

Dependencies

f3 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install f3 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.