How To Install gnome-characters on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-characters
on Kali Linux.
What is gnome-characters
gnome-characters is:
Characters is a simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters.
There are three methods to install gnome-characters
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-characters Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-characters
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-characters
Install gnome-characters Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-characters
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-characters
Install gnome-characters 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 gnome-characters
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-characters
How To Uninstall gnome-characters on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the gnome-characters
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-characters
Uninstall gnome-characters And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-characters
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-characters
Remove gnome-characters Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-characters
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-characters
Remove gnome-characters configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-characters
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-characters
Dependencies
gnome-characters have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- gir1.2-pango-1.0
- gjs
- libglib2.0-bin
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libunistring2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-characters
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.