How To Install aterm on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aterm
on Kali Linux.
What is aterm
aterm is:
Aterm was a fork of rxvt; its changes have long since been merged into rxvt-unicode. This is a dummy transitional package; once you’ve migrated your session startup to not call /usr/bin/aterm anymore, it can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install aterm
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 aterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install aterm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install aterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install aterm
using apt
by running the following command:
Install aterm 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.
After updating apt database, We can install aterm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall aterm on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the aterm
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall aterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aterm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove aterm Configurations and Data
To remove aterm
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove aterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aterm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
aterm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aterm
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.