How To Install foot on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foot
on Kali Linux.
What is foot
foot is:
The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Features
- Fast
- Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory
- Wayland native
- DE agnostic
- User configurable font fallback
- On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment
- Scrollback search
- Color emoji support
- Server/daemon mode
- Multi-seat
- Synchronized Updates support
- Sixel image support
There are three methods to install foot
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 foot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install foot
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install foot
Install foot Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install foot
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install foot
Install foot 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 foot
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install foot
How To Uninstall foot on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the foot
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove foot
Uninstall foot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall foot
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove foot
Remove foot Configurations and Data
To remove foot
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge foot
Remove foot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove foot
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge foot
Dependencies
foot have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libfcft3
- libfontconfig1
- libpixman-1-0
- libwayland-client0
- libwayland-cursor0
- libxkbcommon0
- foot-terminfo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foot
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.