How To Install oci-image-tool on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oci-image-tool on Kali Linux.

What is oci-image-tool

oci-image-tool is:

oci-image-tool is a collection of tools for working with the OCI image format specification (https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec).

There are three methods to install oci-image-tool 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 oci-image-tool Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install oci-image-tool

Install oci-image-tool Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install oci-image-tool using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install oci-image-tool

Install oci-image-tool 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 oci-image-tool using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oci-image-tool

How To Uninstall oci-image-tool on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the oci-image-tool package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove oci-image-tool

Uninstall oci-image-tool And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oci-image-tool

Remove oci-image-tool Configurations and Data

To remove oci-image-tool configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge oci-image-tool

Remove oci-image-tool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove oci-image-tool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oci-image-tool

Dependencies

oci-image-tool have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• oci-image-tool website

Summary

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