How To Install lxc-templates on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lxc-templates

lxc-templates 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 contains the templates.

There are three methods to install lxc-templates 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-templates 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-templates using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lxc-templates

Install lxc-templates Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lxc-templates

Install lxc-templates 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-templates using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lxc-templates

How To Uninstall lxc-templates on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lxc-templates

Uninstall lxc-templates And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxc-templates

Remove lxc-templates Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lxc-templates

Remove lxc-templates configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxc-templates

Dependencies

lxc-templates have the following dependencies:

• lxc

References

• lxc-templates website

Summary

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