How To Install friendly-recovery on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install friendly-recovery on Kali Linux. friendly-recovery is Make recovery boot mode more user-friendly

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install friendly-recovery on Kali Linux.

What is friendly-recovery

friendly-recovery is:

Make the recovery boot mode more user-friendly by providing a menu with pluggable options.

There are three methods to install friendly-recovery 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 friendly-recovery Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install friendly-recovery

Install friendly-recovery Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install friendly-recovery

Install friendly-recovery 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 friendly-recovery using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install friendly-recovery

How To Uninstall friendly-recovery on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the friendly-recovery package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove friendly-recovery

Uninstall friendly-recovery And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove friendly-recovery

Remove friendly-recovery Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge friendly-recovery

Remove friendly-recovery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge friendly-recovery

Dependencies

friendly-recovery have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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