How to Install and Uninstall ddrescue Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "ddrescue" package

This guide let you learn how to install ddrescue on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                ddrescue
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ddrescue" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall ddrescue on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                ddrescue
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ddrescue package on Kali Linux

Package: ddrescue
Version: 1.99.13-0kali1
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Kali Developers
Installed-Size: 407
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), liblzo2-2 (>= 2.02), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0)
Homepage: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Filename: pool/main/d/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.99.13-0kali1_amd64.deb
Size: 146832
SHA256: a8692fb4b41f964eb3512bbe0cf6a8497e9766b78b7b338966c9f6b727eaeda1
SHA1: 2a0ccc51ee95e78ac8c930e8b9e6eedc480daf71
MD5sum: 3d6f2ac5585598d3686efe7f965924ac
Description: data recovery and protection tool
When your disk has crashed and you try to copy it over to another one,
standard Unix tools like cp, cat, and dd will abort on every I/O error,
dd_rescue does not.
It optimizes copying by using large blocks as long as no errors occur
and falls back to smaller blocks. It supports reverse direction copying
(to approach a bad spot from the top), sparse copying, preallocating
space, splice zerocopy, and bypassing the kernel pagecache with O_DIRECT.
dd_rescue provides safe deletion of data by overwriting files (or better
partitions/disks) multiple times with fast random numbers.
With the ddr_hash plugin, it supports calculating a hash value (such as
a sha256sum) or an HMAC during copying.
Description-md5: