How To Install iscsiuio on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iscsiuio
on Kali Linux.
What is iscsiuio
iscsiuio is:
The Open-iSCSI project is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720 iSCSI.
This tool is to be used in conjunction with the QLogic NetXtreme II Linux driver (Kernel module name: ‘bnx2’ and ‘bnx2x’), QLogic CNIC driver, and the QLogic iSCSI driver (Kernel module name: ‘bnx2i’).
This user space tool is used in conjunction with the following QLogic Network Controllers: bnx2: BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709 devices bnx2x: BCM57710, BCM57711, BCM57711E, BCM57712, BCM57712E, BCM57800, BCM57810, BCM57840 devices
This utility will provide the ARP and DHCP functionality for the iSCSI offload. The communication to the driver is done via Userspace I/O (Kernel module name ‘uio’).
This package is required to offload iSCSI onto these devices.
There are three methods to install iscsiuio
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 iscsiuio Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iscsiuio
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iscsiuio
Install iscsiuio Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iscsiuio
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iscsiuio
Install iscsiuio 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 iscsiuio
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iscsiuio
How To Uninstall iscsiuio on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the iscsiuio
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iscsiuio
Uninstall iscsiuio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iscsiuio
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iscsiuio
Remove iscsiuio Configurations and Data
To remove iscsiuio
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iscsiuio
Remove iscsiuio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iscsiuio
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iscsiuio
Dependencies
iscsiuio have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iscsiuio
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.