How To Install mscompress on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is mscompress

mscompress is:

This package contains two programs:

• msexpand which decompresses files compressed by the Microsoft compress.exe utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files);
• mscompress which compresses files using the LZ77 compression algorithm.

Files can be decompressed using Microsoft expand.exe or msexpand(1).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mscompress

Install mscompress Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mscompress

Install mscompress 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 mscompress using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mscompress

How To Uninstall mscompress on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mscompress

Uninstall mscompress And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mscompress

Remove mscompress Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mscompress

Remove mscompress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mscompress

Dependencies

mscompress have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• mscompress website

Summary

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