How To Install ayatana-indicator-printers on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-printers on Kali Linux. ayatana-indicator-printers is Ayatana Indicator showing active print jobs

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 update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ayatana-indicator-printers

Install ayatana-indicator-printers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-printers using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ayatana-indicator-printers

Install 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-printers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ayatana-indicator-printers

How 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-printers

Uninstall 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-printers

Remove 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-printers

Remove 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-printers

Dependencies

ayatana-indicator-printers have the following dependencies:

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.