How To Install unalz on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install unalz on Kali Linux. unalz is De-archiver for .alz files

Introduction

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

What is unalz

unalz is:

This is the utility used for decompressing ALZip format files. It mainly operates on files with names ending in ‘.alz’.

Note that it only support Alzip program’s old (pre-2009) ALZ format. The new “EGG” format is completely different with ALZ and not supported.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install unalz

Install unalz Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install unalz

Install unalz 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 unalz using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unalz

How To Uninstall unalz on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove unalz

Uninstall unalz And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove unalz

Remove unalz Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge unalz

Remove unalz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unalz

Dependencies

unalz have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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