How To Install mydumper on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mydumper on Kali Linux.
What is mydumper
mydumper is:
Mydumper (aka. MySQL Data Dumper) is a high-performance multi-threaded backup (and restore) toolset for MySQL and Drizzle. The main developers originally worked as Support Engineers at MySQL (one has moved to Facebook and another to SkySQL) and this is how they would envisage mysqldump based on years of user feedback.
Mydumper features
Lightweight C source Up to 10x faster dumps compared to mysqldump Consistent snapshots for transactional and non-transactional tables File compression on-the-fly Binary log dumps Multi-threaded restore utility Daemon mode for timed snapshots and continuous binary logs
Mydumper is still under active development but is well tested/used in production on some large installations.
There are three methods to install mydumper 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 mydumper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mydumper using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mydumperInstall mydumper Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mydumper using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mydumperInstall mydumper 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mydumper using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mydumperHow To Uninstall mydumper on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mydumper package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mydumperUninstall mydumper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mydumper and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mydumperRemove mydumper Configurations and Data
To remove mydumper configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mydumperRemove mydumper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mydumper configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mydumperDependencies
mydumper have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mydumper package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.