How To Install kde-baseapps on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-baseapps on Kali Linux. kde-baseapps is base applications from the official KDE release (metapackage)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-baseapps on Kali Linux.

What is kde-baseapps

kde-baseapps is:

KDE is produced by an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.

This package provides core applications for the desktop.

There are three methods to install kde-baseapps 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 kde-baseapps Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kde-baseapps

Install kde-baseapps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kde-baseapps

Install kde-baseapps 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 kde-baseapps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kde-baseapps

How To Uninstall kde-baseapps on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the kde-baseapps package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kde-baseapps

Uninstall kde-baseapps And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kde-baseapps

Remove kde-baseapps Configurations and Data

To remove kde-baseapps configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kde-baseapps

Remove kde-baseapps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kde-baseapps

Dependencies

kde-baseapps have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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