How To Install isal on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install isal on Kali Linux. isal is Intel(R) Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library - tools

Introduction

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

What is isal

isal is:

Collection of low-level functions used in storage applications. Contains fast erasure codes that implement a general Reed-Solomon type encoding for blocks of data that helps protect against erasure of whole blocks. The general ISA-L library contains an expanded set of functions used for data protection, hashing, encryption, etc.

This package contains CLI tools.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install isal

Install isal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install isal

Install isal 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 isal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install isal

How To Uninstall isal on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove isal

Uninstall isal And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove isal

Remove isal Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge isal

Remove isal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge isal

Dependencies

isal have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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