How To Install reiserfsprogs on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is reiserfsprogs

reiserfsprogs is:

This package contains utilities to create, check, resize, and debug ReiserFS filesystems.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install reiserfsprogs

Install reiserfsprogs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install reiserfsprogs

Install reiserfsprogs 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 reiserfsprogs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install reiserfsprogs

How To Uninstall reiserfsprogs on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove reiserfsprogs

Uninstall reiserfsprogs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove reiserfsprogs

Remove reiserfsprogs Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge reiserfsprogs

Remove reiserfsprogs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reiserfsprogs

Dependencies

reiserfsprogs have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcom-err2
• libuuid1

References

• reiserfsprogs website

Summary

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