How to Install and Uninstall genimage Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "genimage" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install genimage on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "genimage" package

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


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

Package: genimage
Version: 17-2
Installed-Size: 154
Maintainer: Sudip Mukherjee
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libconfuse2 (>= 3.2.1~)
Suggests: genisoimage, android-sdk-libsparse-utils, device-tree-compiler, u-boot-tools, mtools, dosfstools, mtd-utils, squashfs-tools, qemu-utils, genext2fs, cpio
Size: 49744
SHA256: 992c0546001f4904b9721447b20245636777277ffc12959b8f0e74d47dfa9c17
SHA1: 761f5ebd3e80698578bdc06533efdf9bec45dd0a
MD5sum: 4731cfa38a76e4c668d5d4701802c6ab
Description: Image Creation Tool
genimage is a tool to generate multiple filesystem and flash/disk
images from a given root filesystem tree. It also supports creating
flash/disk images out of different file-system images and files.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/pengutronix/genimage
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/genimage/genimage_17-2_amd64.deb