How to Install and Uninstall discover Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 21,2024

1. Install "discover" package

This tutorial shows how to install discover on Kali Linux


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

Learn how to uninstall discover on Kali Linux:


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

Package: discover
Version: 2.1.2-10
Installed-Size: 98
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdiscover2 (= 2.1.2-10), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Suggests: lsb-base
Conflicts: discover1 (<< 2.0)
Size: 43248
SHA256: ba0958e9a94408d7c9f0682f60381b78205acd72c420f02fe42665d53cbf0246
SHA1: e8e94b3428772591d4d6a34132dab811fc305805
MD5sum: 8bc47e46b230950ee26d17cc11ae6f33
Description: hardware identification system
Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover2
library. Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can
use to report a wide range of information about the hardware that is
installed on a Linux system. In addition to reporting information,
Discover includes support for doing hardware detection at boot time.
Description-md5:
Tag: admin::boot, admin::configuring, admin::hardware, hardware::detection,
implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::viewing
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/discover/discover_2.1.2-10_amd64.deb