How To Install ffindex on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ffindex

ffindex is:

FFindex is a very simple index/database for huge amounts of small files. The files are stored concatenated in one big data file, separated by ‘\0’. A second file contains a plain text index, giving name, offset and length of the small files. The lookup is currently done with a binary search on an array made from the index file.

This package provides the executables.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ffindex

Install ffindex Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ffindex

Install ffindex 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 ffindex using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ffindex

How To Uninstall ffindex on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ffindex

Uninstall ffindex And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ffindex

Remove ffindex Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ffindex

Remove ffindex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ffindex

Dependencies

ffindex have the following dependencies:

• libffindex0
• libc6
• libopenmpi3

References

• ffindex website

Summary

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