How to Install and Uninstall dracut-core Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "dracut-core" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install dracut-core on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                dracut-core
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "dracut-core" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall dracut-core on Kali Linux:


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

Package: dracut-core
Source: dracut
Version: 060+5-1
Installed-Size: 1485
Maintainer: Thomas Lange
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: dracut-live (<< 059-2), dracut-network (<< 057+157-2)
Depends: cpio, kmod, udev, kpartx, libkmod2 (>= 22~), e2fsprogs, libc6 (>= 2.34)
Recommends: cryptsetup, dmsetup, dmraid, lvm2, mdadm, console-setup, binutils, systemd, pigz, pkg-config
Breaks: dracut-live (<< 059-2), dracut-network (<< 057+157-2)
Size: 336064
SHA256: 8fa31d1781163e91323b999370ca57f641879d45be5c00b6eb0fb0fde7e2871f
SHA1: cccf7389b3b0fe906a62328d85ae6af586000aa8
MD5sum: c6636d01811a0c9e94d8f4203fefa0b2
Description: dracut is an event driven initramfs infrastructure (core tools)
Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as
possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible. The initramfs has
(basically) one purpose in life -- getting the rootfs mounted so that
we can transition to the real rootfs. This is all driven off of
device availability. Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do
various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and
then when we have the rootfs's device node, we mount and carry on.
Having the root on MD, LVM2, LUKS is supported as well as NFS, iSCSI,
NBD and FCOE with dracut-network.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/wiki/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dracut/dracut-core_060+5-1_amd64.deb