How To Install tomb on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomb on Kali Linux. tomb is crypto undertaker

Introduction

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

What is tomb

tomb is:

Tomb is a free and easy to operate desktop application for fairly strong encryption of personal files. A tomb is like a locked folder that can be transported and hidden in filesystems; its keys are password protected and can be kept separate, for instance keeping the tomb file in your computer’s harddisk and the key file on a USB stick.

Tomb relies on dm-crypt (and cryptsetup) as an encryption backend using the aes-xts-plain64 cypher.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tomb

Install tomb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tomb

Install tomb 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 tomb using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tomb

How To Uninstall tomb on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tomb

Uninstall tomb And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tomb

Remove tomb Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tomb

Remove tomb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tomb

Dependencies

tomb have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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