How to Install and Uninstall perforate Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "perforate" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install perforate on Kali Linux


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall perforate on Kali Linux:


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

Package: perforate
Version: 1.2-5.3
Installed-Size: 44
Maintainer: Amaya Rodrigo Sastre
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Size: 12584
SHA256: e4cd802b327a2ff22539c1c31f316d1d7cf19354a4a9a033e2c790f9216cc955
SHA1: 1f7346b8d3d667ebad3b1e57a06e70540e4961a1
MD5sum: 5a18da11a5f6a6af1bf519261535976f
Description: Utilities to save disk space
GNU cp used to detect files that contain 0-filled holes and save disk space
by skipping them with lseek when writing a file and thus not allocating
disk blocks. Unfortunately it does no longer. So here is program to make
holes in existing files.
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Also there are some scripts that help cleaning up the hard disk
(finding duplicated and/or unstripped files).
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://perforate-linux.sf.net
Tag: interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, works-with::file
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/perforate/perforate_1.2-5.3_amd64.deb