How To Install adwaita-qt on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-qt on Kali Linux.
What is adwaita-qt
adwaita-qt is:
Adwaita-Qt provides a port of Adwaita theme, which is the default style of GNOME, to Qt 5.
To use it, start your Qt applications with ??-style Adwaita?? parameter, or export QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=Adwaita environment variable. For the dark version, use Adwaita-Dark instead of Adwaita.
There are three methods to install adwaita-qt 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 adwaita-qt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install adwaita-qt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install adwaita-qtInstall adwaita-qt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install adwaita-qt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install adwaita-qtInstall adwaita-qt 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install adwaita-qt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install adwaita-qtHow To Uninstall adwaita-qt on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the adwaita-qt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove adwaita-qtUninstall adwaita-qt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall adwaita-qt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove adwaita-qtRemove adwaita-qt Configurations and Data
To remove adwaita-qt configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge adwaita-qtRemove adwaita-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove adwaita-qt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adwaita-qtDependencies
adwaita-qt have the following dependencies:
- libadwaitaqt1
- libadwaitaqtpriv1
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libqt5x11extras5
- libstdc++6
- libxcb1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-qt package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.