How to Install and Uninstall fl-cow Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: November 26,2024

1. Install "fl-cow" package

This tutorial shows how to install fl-cow on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fl-cow
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fl-cow" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall fl-cow on Kali Linux:


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

Package: fl-cow
Version: 0.6-7
Installed-Size: 34
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Size: 6416
SHA256: cf77cbb6058916e3710723f07aaf689053fa844ad18fcde792c86ae54240d463
SHA1: 17ebbc7a077efb978eeadf975afe6636acb01253
MD5sum: da07e7cb7b1ade324ae7c842f0b2abdb
Description: copy-on-write utility
Fl-cow allows you to utilise hard links to save disk space by causing
hard-linked files to be copied rather than overwritten as they are changed.
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This is useful for making changes to large source trees while keeping a copy
of the original tree to generate patches from. Also, if you are using the
Arch revision control system with working copies hard-linked to a revision
library, using fl-cow can prevent revision library corruption.
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Fl-cow is an LD_PRELOAD hack, not a kernel patch.
Description-md5:
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fl-cow/fl-cow_0.6-7_amd64.deb