How To Install holes on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is holes

holes is:

holes looks for runs of zero bytes (a.k.a. holes) in the specified input files (or the standard input), and prints the start addresses (in hexadecimal) as well as the lengths (in decimal). When multiple input files are specified, holes prefixes each line with the file name.

It can be used with fallocate(1), truncate(1), or virt-sparsify(1).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install holes

Install holes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install holes

Install holes 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 holes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install holes

How To Uninstall holes on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove holes

Uninstall holes And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove holes

Remove holes Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge holes

Remove holes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge holes

Dependencies

holes have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• holes website

Summary

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