How To Install irecovery on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irecovery
on Kali Linux.
What is irecovery
irecovery is:
libirecovery is a library which implements communication to iBoot/iBSS recovery mode found on Apple’s iOS devices via USB.
This package contains a command-line utility named irecovery.
There are three methods to install irecovery
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 irecovery Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install irecovery
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install irecovery
Install irecovery Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install irecovery
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install irecovery
Install irecovery 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 irecovery
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install irecovery
How To Uninstall irecovery on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the irecovery
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove irecovery
Uninstall irecovery And Its Dependencies
To uninstall irecovery
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove irecovery
Remove irecovery Configurations and Data
To remove irecovery
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge irecovery
Remove irecovery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove irecovery
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge irecovery
Dependencies
irecovery have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irecovery
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.