How To Install agedu on Kali Linux

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In this tutorial we learn how to install agedu on Kali Linux. agedu is Unix utility for tracking down wasted disk space

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install agedu on Kali Linux.

What is agedu

agedu is:

Unix provides the standard du utility, which scans your disk and tells you
which directories contain the largest amounts of data. That can help you
narrow your search to the things most worth deleting.

However, that only tells you what’s big. What you really want to know is
what’s too big. By itself, du won’t let you distinguish between data that’s
big because you’re doing something that needs it to be big, and data that’s
big because you unpacked it once and forgot about it.

To make this difference, agedu relies on the atime of the files.

There are three methods to install agedu on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install agedu Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install agedu using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install agedu

Install agedu Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install agedu using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install agedu

Install agedu Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install agedu using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install agedu

How To Uninstall agedu on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the agedu package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove agedu

Uninstall agedu And Its Dependencies

To uninstall agedu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove agedu

Remove agedu Configurations and Data

To remove agedu configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge agedu

Remove agedu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove agedu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge agedu

Dependencies

agedu have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install agedu package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.

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