How To Install user-mode-linux on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install user-mode-linux on Kali Linux.

What is user-mode-linux

user-mode-linux is:

User-mode Linux (UML) is a port of the Linux kernel to its own system call interface. It provides a kind of virtual machine, which runs Linux as a user process under another Linux kernel. This is useful for kernel development, sandboxes, jails, experimentation, and many other things.

This package contains the kernel itself, as an executable program, and the associated kernel modules.

There are three methods to install user-mode-linux 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 user-mode-linux Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install user-mode-linux

Install user-mode-linux Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install user-mode-linux using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install user-mode-linux

Install user-mode-linux 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 user-mode-linux using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install user-mode-linux

How To Uninstall user-mode-linux on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the user-mode-linux package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove user-mode-linux

Uninstall user-mode-linux And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove user-mode-linux

Remove user-mode-linux Configurations and Data

To remove user-mode-linux configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge user-mode-linux

Remove user-mode-linux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove user-mode-linux configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge user-mode-linux

Dependencies

user-mode-linux have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• user-mode-linux website

Summary

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