How To Install awesome-extra on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install awesome-extra on Kali Linux.

What is awesome-extra

awesome-extra is:

This is a set of additional modules for the awesome window manager.

It contains:

• bashets, use your shell scripts as content providers for widgets
• flaw, object oriented library providing a thin abstraction layer above awesome widgets
• cyclefocus, provides methods to cycle through most recently used clients
• freedesktop, a module for Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icon support
• obvious, a set of several widgets (WiFi link quality, battery usage, etc), superseding wicked
• revelation, expose like functionality
• tyrannical, a simple tag management engine
• vicious, a widget manager

There are three methods to install awesome-extra 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 awesome-extra Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install awesome-extra

Install awesome-extra Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install awesome-extra

Install awesome-extra 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 awesome-extra using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install awesome-extra

How To Uninstall awesome-extra on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the awesome-extra package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove awesome-extra

Uninstall awesome-extra And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove awesome-extra

Remove awesome-extra Configurations and Data

To remove awesome-extra configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge awesome-extra

Remove awesome-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge awesome-extra

Dependencies

awesome-extra have the following dependencies:

References

• awesome-extra website

Summary

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