How To Install owfs on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install owfs on Kali Linux. owfs is Dallas 1-wire support

Introduction

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

What is owfs

owfs is:

The 1-Wire bus is a cheap low-speed bus for devices like weather sensors, access control, etc. It can be attached to your system via serial, USB, I2C, and other interfaces.

This package is a metapackage depending on various other OWFS packages. Installing this package gets you a FUSE daemon, server arbitrates access to the bus from multiple client processes, small ftp and webserver.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install owfs

Install owfs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install owfs

Install owfs 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 owfs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install owfs

How To Uninstall owfs on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove owfs

Uninstall owfs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove owfs

Remove owfs Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge owfs

Remove owfs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge owfs

Dependencies

owfs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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