How To Install syslinux-efi on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslinux-efi
on Kali Linux.
What is syslinux-efi
syslinux-efi is:
syslinux is a suite of bootloaders, currently supporting DOS FAT and NTFS filesystems (SYSLINUX), Linux ext2/ext3/ext4, btrfs, and xfs filesystems (EXTLINUX), PXE network boots (PXELINUX), or ISO 9660 CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX).
This package contains the bootloader for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).
There are three methods to install syslinux-efi
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 syslinux-efi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install syslinux-efi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install syslinux-efi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install syslinux-efi
using apt
by running the following command:
Install syslinux-efi 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.
After updating apt database, We can install syslinux-efi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall syslinux-efi on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the syslinux-efi
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall syslinux-efi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall syslinux-efi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove syslinux-efi Configurations and Data
To remove syslinux-efi
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove syslinux-efi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove syslinux-efi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
syslinux-efi have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslinux-efi
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.