How To Install xz-utils on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xz-utils on Kali Linux.
What is xz-utils
xz-utils is:
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
This package provides the command line tools for working with XZ compression, including xz, unxz, xzcat, xzgrep, and so on. They can also handle the older LZMA format, and if invoked via appropriate symlinks will emulate the behavior of the commands in the lzma package.
The XZ format is similar to the older LZMA format but includes some improvements for general use:
- ‘file’ magic for detecting XZ files;
- crc64 data integrity check;
- limited random-access reading support;
- improved support for multithreading (not used in xz-utils);
- support for flushing the encoder.
There are three methods to install xz-utils 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 xz-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install xz-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xz-utilsInstall xz-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install xz-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xz-utilsInstall xz-utils 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install xz-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xz-utilsHow To Uninstall xz-utils on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the xz-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xz-utilsUninstall xz-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xz-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xz-utilsRemove xz-utils Configurations and Data
To remove xz-utils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xz-utilsRemove xz-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xz-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xz-utilsDependencies
xz-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xz-utils package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
