How to Install and Uninstall libarchive-tools Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "libarchive-tools" package

Please follow the steps below to install libarchive-tools on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libarchive-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libarchive-tools" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libarchive-tools on Kali Linux:


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

Package: libarchive-tools
Source: libarchive
Version: 3.7.2-1
Installed-Size: 236
Maintainer: Peter Pentchev
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libarchive13 (= 3.7.2-1), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Size: 84616
SHA256: 580ca49c42b1392616ef52ba09e850be933700c9b739e9beb63ead2963fcfe6e
SHA1: 97cdc515a9eecefa3edc6f085b2f170ff47fa7ba
MD5sum: fc950a5cc0964741a1815bf984839af4
Description: FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools
This package contains several command-line tools based on the libarchive
library.
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The bsdtar program is the default system 'tar' program used on FreeBSD. bsdtar
uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading
and writing archives in various formats.
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The bsdcpio program is the default system 'cpio' program used on FreeBSD.
bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for
reading and writing archives in various formats.
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The bsdcat program reads archived data from files or from its standard input
and uses the libarchive library to decompresses it to its standard output.
It may be used for viewing the contents of archives or for passing it to other
tools for further processing.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://www.libarchive.org/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-tools_3.7.2-1_amd64.deb