How To Install kcharselect on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcharselect
on Kali Linux.
What is kcharselect
kcharselect is:
KCharSelect is a utility for finding special characters which are not available on the keyboard. It can search for characters by Unicode number, display characters in any font, and copy characters to the clipboard so they can be pasted into documents.
This package is part of the KDE utilities module.
There are three methods to install kcharselect
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 kcharselect Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kcharselect
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kcharselect
Install kcharselect Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kcharselect
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kcharselect
Install kcharselect 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 kcharselect
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kcharselect
How To Uninstall kcharselect on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kcharselect
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kcharselect
Uninstall kcharselect And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kcharselect
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kcharselect
Remove kcharselect Configurations and Data
To remove kcharselect
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kcharselect
Remove kcharselect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kcharselect
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kcharselect
Dependencies
kcharselect have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libkf5bookmarks5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configgui5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5crash5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcharselect
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.