How To Install perforate on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is perforate

perforate is:

GNU cp used to detect files that contain 0-filled holes and save disk space by skipping them with lseek when writing a file and thus not allocating disk blocks. Unfortunately it does no longer. So here is program to make holes in existing files.

Also there are some scripts that help cleaning up the hard disk (finding duplicated and/or unstripped files).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install perforate

Install perforate Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install perforate

Install perforate 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 perforate using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install perforate

How To Uninstall perforate on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove perforate

Uninstall perforate And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove perforate

Remove perforate Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge perforate

Remove perforate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge perforate

Dependencies

perforate have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• perforate website

Summary

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