How To Install fatrace on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fatrace

fatrace is:

fatrace reports file access events from all running processes. Its main purpose is to find processes which keep waking up the disk unnecessarily and thus prevent some power saving.

This package also contains a “power-usage-report” tool, which uses fatrace and powertop to build a textual report from one minute of measuring power usage and file accesses. This does not take any arguments or requires any interactivity, so is very simple to use and serves as a starting point for bug reports or optimizing a particular installation.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fatrace

Install fatrace Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fatrace

Install fatrace 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 fatrace using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fatrace

How To Uninstall fatrace on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fatrace

Uninstall fatrace And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fatrace

Remove fatrace Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fatrace

Remove fatrace configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fatrace

Dependencies

fatrace have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• fatrace website

Summary

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