How To Install evince-common on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-common
on Kali Linux.
What is evince-common
evince-common is:
Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.
This package contains architecture-independent files for evince.
There are three methods to install evince-common
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 evince-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install evince-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install evince-common
Install evince-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install evince-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install evince-common
Install evince-common 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 evince-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install evince-common
How To Uninstall evince-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the evince-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove evince-common
Uninstall evince-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall evince-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove evince-common
Remove evince-common Configurations and Data
To remove evince-common
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge evince-common
Remove evince-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove evince-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge evince-common
Dependencies
evince-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-common
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.