How To Install zulumount-cli on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install zulumount-cli on Kali Linux. zulumount-cli is tool that manages encrypted volumes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zulumount-cli on Kali Linux.

What is zulumount-cli

zulumount-cli is:

zulucrypt is a suite of applications for creating and managing volumes encrypted with luks, plain, truecrypt and veracrypt.

zulumount-cli is a command line interface that has a primary mission of opening and closing encrypted volumes as well as mounting and unmounting unencrypted volumes and opened encrypted ones. Its primary purpose is to do what tools like udisks does.

There are three methods to install zulumount-cli 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 zulumount-cli Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zulumount-cli

Install zulumount-cli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install zulumount-cli

Install zulumount-cli 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 zulumount-cli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zulumount-cli

How To Uninstall zulumount-cli on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the zulumount-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove zulumount-cli

Uninstall zulumount-cli And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zulumount-cli

Remove zulumount-cli Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge zulumount-cli

Remove zulumount-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zulumount-cli

Dependencies

zulumount-cli have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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