How To Install tftp-hpa on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tftp-hpa on Kali Linux.

What is tftp-hpa

tftp-hpa is:

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a file transfer protocol, mainly to serve boot images over the network to other machines (PXE).

tftp-hpa is an enhanced version of the BSD TFTP client and server. It possesses a number of bugfixes and enhancements over the original.

This package contains the client.

There are three methods to install tftp-hpa 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 tftp-hpa Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tftp-hpa

Install tftp-hpa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tftp-hpa

Install tftp-hpa 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 tftp-hpa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tftp-hpa

How To Uninstall tftp-hpa on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tftp-hpa package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tftp-hpa

Uninstall tftp-hpa And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tftp-hpa

Remove tftp-hpa Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tftp-hpa

Remove tftp-hpa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tftp-hpa

Dependencies

tftp-hpa have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• tftp-hpa website

Summary

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