How To Install fbpanel on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel on Kali Linux. fbpanel is lightweight X11 desktop panel

Introduction

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

What is fbpanel

fbpanel is:

FBPanel is a spinoff of the fspanel (f***ing small panel) with more eye candy. It provides a taskbar (list of all opened windows), desktop switcher, launchbar, clock, is EWMH/NETWM compliant, and has modest resource usage.

There are three methods to install fbpanel 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 fbpanel Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fbpanel

Install fbpanel Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fbpanel

Install fbpanel 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 fbpanel using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fbpanel

How To Uninstall fbpanel on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fbpanel

Uninstall fbpanel And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fbpanel

Remove fbpanel Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fbpanel

Remove fbpanel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fbpanel

Dependencies

fbpanel have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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