How To Install cairo-dock on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-dock
on Kali Linux.
What is cairo-dock
cairo-dock is:
Cairo-dock has a family-likeness with OS X dock, but with more options. It uses cairo to render nice graphics, and Glitz to use hardware acceleration. It’s fully configurable and can be a taskbar too. You can easily plug applets into it.
This is metapackage that provides the components necessary for running Cairo-dock. This installs a cairo-dock-core application and cairo-dock-plugins package easily.
And Cairo-dock installs cairo-dock-core and plugins and makes sense as Cairo-dock.
There are three methods to install cairo-dock
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 cairo-dock Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cairo-dock
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cairo-dock
Install cairo-dock Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cairo-dock
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cairo-dock
Install cairo-dock 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 cairo-dock
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cairo-dock
How To Uninstall cairo-dock on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cairo-dock
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cairo-dock
Uninstall cairo-dock And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cairo-dock
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cairo-dock
Remove cairo-dock Configurations and Data
To remove cairo-dock
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cairo-dock
Remove cairo-dock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cairo-dock
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cairo-dock
Dependencies
cairo-dock have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-dock
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.