How to Install and Uninstall sdate Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "sdate" package

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


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall sdate on Kali Linux:


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

Package: sdate
Version: 0.7
Installed-Size: 37
Maintainer: Christoph Berg
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Size: 7644
SHA256: d50c44aa68bef461299908b96a8ac66482ef2461126ed5d06870ac5a73f433a8
SHA1: 6b267d6a29b6750c28fbefea165d4d9702c6bbee
MD5sum: abcd68e05cf0a2d73519d02b82d63928
Description: never ending September date
sdate wraps the libc localtime() and gmtime() functions to output the eternal
september 1993 date.
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sdate works like fakeroot (on which its code is based) by setting LD_PRELOAD
to a wrapper library.
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* http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/
Tag: game::toys, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::entertaining, use::timekeeping
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/sdate/sdate_0.7_amd64.deb