How to Install and Uninstall ca-certificates Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "ca-certificates" package

Please follow the guidance below to install ca-certificates on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                ca-certificates
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ca-certificates" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall ca-certificates on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ca-certificates
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ca-certificates package on Kali Linux

Package: ca-certificates
Version: 20240203
Installed-Size: 386
Maintainer: Julien Cristau
Architecture: all
Depends: openssl (>= 1.1.1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Enhances: openssl
Breaks: ca-certificates-java (<< 20121112+nmu1)
Size: 158052
SHA256: 10ab75a10d3d515f4d1903ba807403dad5598ac3445a3251b06026fbec0e85af
SHA1: 2ab07ed2d73befec89c4fe18cef4bf1d384b7a2f
MD5sum: fd662659da07100af860d720ca35df27
Description: Common CA certificates
Contains the certificate authorities shipped with Mozilla's browser to allow
SSL-based applications to check for the authenticity of SSL connections.
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Please note that Debian can neither confirm nor deny whether the
certificate authorities whose certificates are included in this package
have in any way been audited for trustworthiness or RFC 3647 compliance.
Full responsibility to assess them belongs to the local system
administrator.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: protocol::ssl, role::app-data, security::authentication
Section: misc
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/c/ca-certificates/ca-certificates_20240203_all.deb