How To Install libopeniscsiusr-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopeniscsiusr-dev on Kali Linux. libopeniscsiusr-dev is iSCSI userspace library headers

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 update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libopeniscsiusr-dev

Install libopeniscsiusr-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libopeniscsiusr-dev

Install 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install libopeniscsiusr-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopeniscsiusr-dev

How 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-dev

Uninstall 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-dev

Remove 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-dev

Remove 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-dev

Dependencies

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.