How To Install lxc on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lxc

lxc is:

Containers are insulated areas inside a system, which have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, IPC, CPU and memory allocation and which can be created using the Control Group and Namespace features included in the Linux kernel.

This package provides the lxc-* tools, which can be used to start a single daemon in a container, or to boot an entire “containerized” system, and to manage and debug your containers.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lxc

Install lxc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lxc

Install lxc 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 lxc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lxc

How To Uninstall lxc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lxc

Uninstall lxc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxc

Remove lxc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lxc

Remove lxc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxc

Dependencies

lxc have the following dependencies:

• liblxc1

References

• lxc website

Summary

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