How To Install safelease on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is safelease

safelease is:

Safelease is a legacy cluster lock utility used by Vdsm. It is based on the algorithm presented in the article “Light-Weight Leases for Storage-Centric Coordination” by G Chockler and D Malkhi.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install safelease

Install safelease Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install safelease

Install safelease 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 safelease using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install safelease

How To Uninstall safelease on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove safelease

Uninstall safelease And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove safelease

Remove safelease Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge safelease

Remove safelease configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge safelease

Dependencies

safelease have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• safelease website

Summary

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