How To Install fdflush on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fdflush

fdflush is:

fdflush is a band-aid for floppy (or other) drives with bad disk-change sensing. fdflush makes the system believe the disk-change switch has been triggered forcing the system to discard the buffered data.

If you have one of these slightly-broken disk drives, you’ll have to run fdflush every time you change a disk.

fdflush is useful for computers which might be sleeping when you change floppies or other removable media.

The command “floppycontrol -f” does the same thing, but the fdutils package is significantly larger; it only uses the floppy-specific flush ioctl.

The command “blockdev –flushbufs” only uses the generic flush ioctl.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fdflush

Install fdflush Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fdflush

Install fdflush 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 fdflush using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fdflush

How To Uninstall fdflush on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fdflush

Uninstall fdflush And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fdflush

Remove fdflush Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fdflush

Remove fdflush configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fdflush

Dependencies

fdflush have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• fdflush website

Summary

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