How To Install awesome on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install awesome on Kali Linux. awesome is highly configurable X window manager

Introduction

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

What is `awesome`

awesome is:

awesome manages windows dynamically in floating or tiled layouts. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers, and all those dealing with everyday computing tasks and looking for fine-grained control over their graphical environment.

It is highly extensible and scriptable via the Lua programming language, providing an easy-to-use and very well documented API to configure its behavior.

awesome uses tags instead of workspaces, which gives better flexibility in displaying windows, and can be entirely keyboard-driven, not needing a mouse. It also supports multi-headed configurations; uses XCB instead of Xlib for better performance; implements many freedesktop standards; and can be controlled over D-Bus from awesome-client.

There are three methods to install awesome 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install awesome

Install awesome Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install awesome

Install awesome 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install awesome

How To Uninstall awesome on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove awesome

Uninstall awesome And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove awesome

Remove awesome Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge awesome

Remove awesome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge awesome

Dependencies

awesome have the following dependencies:

References

awesome website

Summary

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