How To Install atom4 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install atom4 on Kali Linux.

What is atom4

atom4 is:

Atom-4 is a two-player color manipulation game played with colored spherical pieces on a board divided into equilateral triangles. The player who first makes a row of 4 pieces of the right color wins. However, the players do not directly play pieces of the winning color; they must construct their winning pieces via color changes that happen to neighbouring pieces whenever a new piece is placed on the board.

Atom-4 supports both a curses-based text interface and an X11 interface.

There are three methods to install atom4 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 atom4 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install atom4 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install atom4

Install atom4 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install atom4 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install atom4

Install atom4 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 atom4 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install atom4

How To Uninstall atom4 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the atom4 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove atom4

Uninstall atom4 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall atom4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove atom4

Remove atom4 Configurations and Data

To remove atom4 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge atom4

Remove atom4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove atom4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge atom4

Dependencies

atom4 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• atom4 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install atom4 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.