How To Install accountsservice on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice on Kali Linux. accountsservice is query and manipulate user account information

Introduction

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

What is accountsservice

accountsservice is:

The AccountService project provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information and an implementation of these interfaces, based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands.

There are three methods to install accountsservice 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 accountsservice Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install accountsservice

Install accountsservice Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install accountsservice

Install accountsservice 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 accountsservice using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install accountsservice

How To Uninstall accountsservice on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the accountsservice package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove accountsservice

Uninstall accountsservice And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove accountsservice

Remove accountsservice Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge accountsservice

Remove accountsservice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge accountsservice

Dependencies

accountsservice have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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