How To Install myrescue on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is myrescue

myrescue is:

myrescue is a program to rescue the still-readable data from a damaged harddisk, CD-ROM, DVD, flash drives, etc. It is similar in purpose to dd_rescue (or ddrescue), but it tries to quickly get out of damaged areas to first handle the not yet damaged part of the disk and return later.

This package is useful to recover data from any media and for forensics investigations.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install myrescue

Install myrescue Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install myrescue

Install myrescue 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 myrescue using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install myrescue

How To Uninstall myrescue on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove myrescue

Uninstall myrescue And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove myrescue

Remove myrescue Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge myrescue

Remove myrescue configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge myrescue

Dependencies

myrescue have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• myrescue website

Summary

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