How To Install alacarte on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is alacarte

alacarte is:

Alacarte is an easy-to-use menu editor for GNOME that can add and edit new entries and menus. It works with the freedesktop.org menu specification and should work with any desktop environment that uses the spec.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install alacarte

Install alacarte Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alacarte

Install alacarte 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 alacarte using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alacarte

How To Uninstall alacarte on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove alacarte

Uninstall alacarte And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alacarte

Remove alacarte Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge alacarte

Remove alacarte configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alacarte

Dependencies

alacarte have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• alacarte website

Summary

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