How To Install ayatana-indicator-application on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-application on Kali Linux.
What is ayatana-indicator-application
ayatana-indicator-application is:
An indicator to take menus from external applications and place them in the panel.
The application supporting indicator based panel applets provides its menu tree via the DBus bus org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher.
This version of application indicators accepts connections from any application built against either of the available indicator frameworks: Ayatana Indicators and Ubuntu Indicators.
There are three methods to install ayatana-indicator-application 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 ayatana-indicator-application Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-application using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ayatana-indicator-applicationInstall ayatana-indicator-application Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-application using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ayatana-indicator-applicationInstall ayatana-indicator-application 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-application using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ayatana-indicator-applicationHow To Uninstall ayatana-indicator-application on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ayatana-indicator-application package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ayatana-indicator-applicationUninstall ayatana-indicator-application And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ayatana-indicator-application and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ayatana-indicator-applicationRemove ayatana-indicator-application Configurations and Data
To remove ayatana-indicator-application configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ayatana-indicator-applicationRemove ayatana-indicator-application configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ayatana-indicator-application configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ayatana-indicator-applicationDependencies
ayatana-indicator-application have the following dependencies:
- libayatana-appindicator3-1
- libayatana-indicator3-7
- libc6
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libdbusmenu-gtk3-4
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- init-system-helpers
- ayatana-indicator-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-application package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.