How To Install partimage-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install partimage-doc on Kali Linux. partimage-doc is Partition Image User Documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install partimage-doc on Kali Linux.

What is partimage-doc

partimage-doc is:

This package contains documentation about Partition Image.

Partition Image is a partition imaging utility. It has support for the following file systems:

  • Ext2/3, the Linux standard
  • ReiserFS, a journalised and powerful file system
  • FAT16/32, DOS and Windows file systems
  • HPFS, IBM OS/2 file system
  • JFS, journalised file system, from IBM, used on AIX
  • XFS, another journalised and efficient file system, from SGI, used on Irix
  • UFS (beta), Unix file system
  • HFS (beta), MacOS File system
  • NTFS (experimental), Windows NT, 2000 and XP Only used blocks are copied and stored into an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied onto removable media (ZIP for example), burned on a CD-R, etc.

There are three methods to install partimage-doc 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 partimage-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install partimage-doc

Install partimage-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install partimage-doc

Install partimage-doc 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 partimage-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install partimage-doc

How To Uninstall partimage-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the partimage-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove partimage-doc

Uninstall partimage-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove partimage-doc

Remove partimage-doc Configurations and Data

To remove partimage-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge partimage-doc

Remove partimage-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge partimage-doc

Dependencies

partimage-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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