How To Install lua-swupdate on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-swupdate
on Kali Linux.
What is lua-swupdate
lua-swupdate is:
This package contains the Lua bindings for swupdate.
swupdate is a Linux update agent with the goal to provide an efficient and safe way to update an embedded system.
- Install on embedded media (eMMC, SD, Raw NAND, NOR and SPI-NOR flashes)
- Allow delivery single image for multiple devices
- Multiple interfaces for getting software
- local storage
- integrated web server
- integrated REST client connector to hawkBit
- remote server download
- Software delivered as images, gzipped tarball, etc
- Allow custom handlers for installing FPGA/ microcontroller firmware.
- Power-Off safe
There are three methods to install lua-swupdate
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-swupdate 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-swupdate
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-swupdate
Install lua-swupdate Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-swupdate
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-swupdate
Install lua-swupdate 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-swupdate
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-swupdate
How To Uninstall lua-swupdate on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lua-swupdate
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-swupdate
Uninstall lua-swupdate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-swupdate
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-swupdate
Remove lua-swupdate Configurations and Data
To remove lua-swupdate
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-swupdate
Remove lua-swupdate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-swupdate
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-swupdate
Dependencies
lua-swupdate have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-swupdate
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.