How To Install tar-split on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tar-split on Kali Linux.

What is tar-split

tar-split is:

Pristinely disassembling a tar archive, and stashing needed raw bytes and offsets to reassemble a validating original archive.

Eventually this should detect TARs that this is not possible with.

For example stored sparse files that have “holes” in them, will be read as a contiguous file, though the archive contents may be recorded in sparse format. Therefore when adding the file payload to a reassembled tar, to achieve identical output, the file payload would need be precisely re-sparsified. This is not something I seek to fix immediately, but would rather have an alert that precise reassembly is not possible. (see more http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Sparse-Formats.html)

Other caveat, while tar archives support having multiple file entries for the same path, we will not support this feature. If there are more than one entries with the same path, expect an err (like ErrDuplicatePath) or a resulting tar stream that does not validate your original checksum/signature.

There are three methods to install tar-split 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 tar-split Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tar-split

Install tar-split Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tar-split

Install tar-split 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 tar-split using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tar-split

How To Uninstall tar-split on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tar-split package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tar-split

Uninstall tar-split And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tar-split

Remove tar-split Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tar-split

Remove tar-split configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tar-split

Dependencies

tar-split have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• tar-split website

Summary

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