How To Install ayatana-indicator-printers on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-printers on Kali Linux.
What is ayatana-indicator-printers
ayatana-indicator-printers is:
This Ayatana Indicator is designed to let you view and control active print jobs.
Ayatana Indicators are only available on desktop environments that provide a renderer for system indicators (such as MATE, Xfce, Lomiri, etc.).
There are three methods to install ayatana-indicator-printers 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-printers 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-printers using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ayatana-indicator-printersInstall ayatana-indicator-printers Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-printers using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ayatana-indicator-printersInstall ayatana-indicator-printers 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-printers using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ayatana-indicator-printersHow To Uninstall ayatana-indicator-printers on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ayatana-indicator-printers package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ayatana-indicator-printersUninstall ayatana-indicator-printers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ayatana-indicator-printers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ayatana-indicator-printersRemove ayatana-indicator-printers Configurations and Data
To remove ayatana-indicator-printers configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ayatana-indicator-printersRemove ayatana-indicator-printers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ayatana-indicator-printers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ayatana-indicator-printersDependencies
ayatana-indicator-printers have the following dependencies:
- libayatana-indicator3-7
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcups2
- libdbusmenu-glib4
- libdbusmenu-gtk3-4
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- init-system-helpers
- ayatana-indicator-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-printers package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.