How To Install supermin on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is supermin

supermin is:

Supermin appliances are tiny appliances, similar to virtual machine images, usually around 100KB in size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second to a filesystem image when they are booted.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install supermin

Install supermin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install supermin

Install supermin 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 supermin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install supermin

How To Uninstall supermin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove supermin

Uninstall supermin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove supermin

Remove supermin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge supermin

Remove supermin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge supermin

Dependencies

supermin have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcom-err2
• libext2fs2
• apt
• cpio
• e2fsprogs

References

• supermin website

Summary

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