How To Install stlink-gui on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install stlink-gui on Kali Linux. stlink-gui is OpenSource ST-Link tools replacement.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stlink-gui on Kali Linux.

stlink-gui is:

Flashing tools for STMicroelectronics STM32VL and STM32L. The transport layers STLINKv1 and STLINKv2 are supported.

This package contains a GUI tool for stlink.

There are three methods to install stlink-gui 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install stlink-gui

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install stlink-gui

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 stlink-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stlink-gui

To uninstall only the stlink-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove stlink-gui

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stlink-gui

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

sudo apt-get -y purge stlink-gui

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stlink-gui

Dependencies

stlink-gui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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