How To Install libopeniscsiusr-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopeniscsiusr-dev on Kali Linux.
What is libopeniscsiusr-dev
libopeniscsiusr-dev is:
The Open-iSCSI project is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720 iSCSI.
Open-iSCSI is partitioned into user and kernel parts.
The kernel portion of Open-iSCSI is a from-scratch code licensed under GPL. The kernel part implements iSCSI data path (that is, iSCSI Read and iSCSI Write), and consists of three loadable modules: scsi_transport_iscsi.ko, libiscsi.ko and iscsi_tcp.ko.
User space contains the entire control plane: configuration manager, iSCSI Discovery, Login and Logout processing, connection-level error processing, Nop-In and Nop-Out handling, and (in the future:) Text processing, iSNS, SLP, Radius, etc.
The user space Open-iSCSI consists of a daemon process called iscsid, and a management utility iscsiadm.
This package contains the iSCSI userspace library headers.
There are three methods to install libopeniscsiusr-dev 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 libopeniscsiusr-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libopeniscsiusr-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopeniscsiusr-devInstall libopeniscsiusr-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libopeniscsiusr-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopeniscsiusr-devInstall libopeniscsiusr-dev 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libopeniscsiusr-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopeniscsiusr-devHow To Uninstall libopeniscsiusr-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libopeniscsiusr-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopeniscsiusr-devUninstall libopeniscsiusr-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopeniscsiusr-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopeniscsiusr-devRemove libopeniscsiusr-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libopeniscsiusr-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopeniscsiusr-devRemove libopeniscsiusr-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopeniscsiusr-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopeniscsiusr-devDependencies
libopeniscsiusr-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopeniscsiusr-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.