How To Install 9wm on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install 9wm on Kali Linux.

What is 9wm

9wm is:

It provides a very simple and clean user interface. It is click-to-type. It uses the X11 font system (which, unfortunately, means no Unicode support).

9wm does not provide virtual desktops, customization, key bindings, EWMH support, or compositing. It does not allocate any colors, which will be great news if you are stuck in 1993.

It is a great place to start if you are interested in writing a window manager from scratch: many folks have done exactly this.

There are three methods to install 9wm 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 9wm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install 9wm using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install 9wm

Install 9wm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install 9wm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install 9wm

Install 9wm 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 9wm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install 9wm

How To Uninstall 9wm on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the 9wm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove 9wm

Uninstall 9wm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall 9wm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove 9wm

Remove 9wm Configurations and Data

To remove 9wm configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge 9wm

Remove 9wm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove 9wm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge 9wm

Dependencies

9wm have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libx11-6
• libxext6

References

• 9wm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install 9wm package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.