How to Install and Uninstall prctl Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "prctl" package

Please follow the instructions below to install prctl on Kali Linux


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall prctl on Kali Linux:


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

Package: prctl
Source: prctl (1.6-1)
Version: 1.6-1+b1
Installed-Size: 30
Maintainer: Khalid Aziz
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Size: 8940
SHA256: 52635db2153f3c8ec8dc567983f52930a7173ce742d65230021ec15a62b6df66
SHA1: 28e23e56733b14a86952f691fe70e4aea974ee12
MD5sum: 64eb3a730d8964e7cf3f56a28c599a1c
Description: Process control operations
prctl is a tool to query and modify process behavior. Supported process
behavior is handling of unaligned memory access, handling of floating
point software assist faults and machine check memory corruption kill
policy. Some of this functionality is supported by the kernel only on
a subset of architectures.
Description-md5:
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/prctl/prctl_1.6-1+b1_amd64.deb