How To Install lua-guestfs on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-guestfs on Kali Linux.

What is lua-guestfs

lua-guestfs is:

The libguestfs library allows accessing and modifying guest disk images.

This package contains the Lua bindings.

There are three methods to install lua-guestfs 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 lua-guestfs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-guestfs

Install lua-guestfs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-guestfs

Install lua-guestfs 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 lua-guestfs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lua-guestfs

How To Uninstall lua-guestfs on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lua-guestfs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lua-guestfs

Uninstall lua-guestfs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-guestfs

Remove lua-guestfs Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-guestfs

Remove lua-guestfs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-guestfs

Dependencies

lua-guestfs have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libguestfs0

References

• lua-guestfs website

Summary

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