How To Install gnome-books on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-books on Kali Linux.
What is gnome-books
gnome-books is:
GNOME Books is a simple application to access and organize your ebooks. It is meant to be a simple and elegant replacement for using a file manager to deal with ebooks. The app supports comic books and ePub books.
There are three methods to install gnome-books 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 gnome-books Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gnome-books using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-booksInstall gnome-books Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gnome-books using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-booksInstall gnome-books 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install gnome-books using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-booksHow To Uninstall gnome-books on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gnome-books package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-booksUninstall gnome-books And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-books and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-booksRemove gnome-books Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-books configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-booksRemove gnome-books configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-books configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-booksDependencies
gnome-books have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
- gir1.2-gepub-0.6
- gir1.2-pango-1.0
- gir1.2-tracker-2.0
- gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
- gjs
- gnome-online-miners
- tracker
- tracker-extract
- gir1.2-evince-3.0
- gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libevdocument3-4
- libevview3-3
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnome-desktop-3-19
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-books package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
